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You might also want to check out samba for file and printer sharing.
It is an Australian product (ex ANU) and is faster and easier to integrate
into a Windows environment than NFS.
It can also be symetric - which NFS cannot (yet).

> bg> If you're looking at using the Linux box as a fileserver, you could
> bg> try  setting up NFS on it, and using a shareware NFS client on your
DOS
> bg> machines called XFS - which you can find on archie.
>
> bg> As for telnet and ftp - the NCSA suite is readily available and
> bg> functional.
>
>Thanks.  I'll look these up and start collecting s/w for the project.
>NFS will be the way to go, since I hope to have ample diskspace on the
>Linux box, but the DOS machine will be a little short.  Besides, some of
>the s/w will need to access files left in the DOS partition by the
>server.  I'm basically doing this, but with Intersvr (yuk!) ATM, so I
>(1) can't leave my drive accessible at all times, and (2) I've had
>reliability problems with it...


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