CH> Also, you need more than 4meg of RAM to share resources with 
 CH> WFWG. 8 is probably the minimum. 
I don't think that there's a machine in the whole place with other than 8 
megs in it,  and know of at least one that's due to be expanded beyond that 
(for desktop publishing use).
 CH> WFWG when setup as a file/print server will need about 2.3meg 
 CH> of RAM just for the networking. 
I'll keep that in mind...
 CH> It's clean, cheap and simple and works fairly well. Windows 95 
 CH> is much better and faster peer to peer networking than WFWG and 
 CH> more stable, but WFWG is ok. 
I don't think that moving to win95 is an option in this case.
 CH> WFWG and W95 will connect to each other just fine, so you can 
 CH> mix them. Expect a 10-30% slowdown in running desktop 
 CH> applications from a WFWG system that is setup as a file server 
 CH> as compared to a Windows system that is not a file/print 
 CH> server. 
Ok.
 CH> If the guy is trying to connect 386's or slow 486's he might be 
 CH> disappointed in desktop performance.
They're all 486 machines,  with one exception (a 386sx/16 that's due to be 
upgraded).  Most are at 66 MHz.
 CH> WFWG is probably as simple of a network to setup as there is. 
 CH> Does file/printer sharing, has Mail, Chat, NetDDE, etc.  If you 
 CH> don't know much about networking, and are trying to setup a 
 CH> network for someone, WFWG is as simple as it gets.  You need to 
 CH> figure out what model number network cards they have and be 
 CH> sure that WFWG has drivers to support them.  Should work fine if 
 CH> you can configure them as NE2000 cards and know the base 
 CH> address and IRQ of each card. 
I believe that these are Artisoft cards,  and have been unable to find any 
device driver or config software for any of them,  unless it's on one of 
those Lantastic disks...
 RJT> am I looking at and when would it be practical to move to 
 RJT> something else?  (In other words,  if this guy's gotta spend 
 RJT> some more money I need to be able to go to him and tell him 
 RJT> _why_ he needs to spend some more money...   :-)
 CH> Hee Hee, it amazes me that usually sharp intelligent people 
 CH> running small business's will have thousands and thousands of 
 CH> dollars tied up in computer hardware and software and want to 
 CH> do networks for a dime, usually done by some one that doesn't 
 CH> know much about what he is doing. I've seen cheap shitty 
 CH> cobbeled together lanstastic, novell lite and WFWG networks 
 CH> bring a small business to it's knees because of horsing around 
 CH> trying to do it for under 200 bucks and using old network cards 
 CH> they found laying around etc. False economy if you put a value 
 CH> on employees time and a business's productivity. There is 
 CH> probably a good reason that you found those network cards and 
 CH> two user lantastic laying around not in use at his business. 
 CH> Some other "consultant" evidently was there before you.
The "sales" guy used to run a Compu-Add store in the area,  and he's the one 
that purchased the packages...      
From what I understand of the situation,  he (the boss) thought that it was 
quite feasible to take two of the two-user packages and use them both 
together to make a four-user setup.
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