From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Subject: Re: TCP/IP and Windows for Workgroups
Organization: CARD
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:20:06 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.162001.14830@devildog.att.com>                                                                                                  
steveh@devildog.att.com (Steve Hendershott) writes:                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                      
>If I currently use TCP/IP (FTP's) to communicate from DOS/Windows to                                                                                 
>UNIX (telnet, ftp, etc), can I put up Windows for Workgroups (WFWG) and                                                                              
>set up to communicate with my associates who also install WFWG? In                                                                                   
>other words, is it that simple to say WFWG will work over TCP/IP? What                                                                               
>else does one have to do? Is there a simple answer or is it                                                                                          
>complicated?                                                                                                                                         
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>Thanks for any help I can get in understanding this.                                                                                                 
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>Steve Hendershott                                                                                                                                    
>steveh@devildog.att.com                                                                                                                              
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>Stephen W. Hendershott                                                                                                                               
>steveh@devildog.att.com                                                                                                                              
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Wg4W peer server is like a SMB file server, like LAN Server or LAN Manager                                                                            
or PC LAN Program.  I have never used it (Wg4W) but would assume that                                                                                 
it uses NETBIOS for communication.  You may be able to get the NETBIOS                                                                                
to be encapsulated in TCP/IP packets if nessassary.  HP's LAN Manager/X                                                                               
does it this way, the newer LAN Server can do this, and newer LAN Manager??                                                                           
can probably do this too.                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                      
Mike Long