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In article <DD99q6.Et@serval.net.wsu.edu>, mrush@olympic.net (Michael Rush) says:
>
>I have been tasked with networking a small office (5PC's). I was
>thinking of going with an NT server with the PC's using WFW, cost
>being a primary consideration. 90% of the net use will be peer to
>peer, i.e. sharing files, printers. There will be one DOS application
>residing on the server used by everyone. The only glitch so far is
>that my clinent wishes to have two dumb terminals hooked up to the
>network and I have never done this before. I was aIso asked if there
>is a way to provide all usere access to a fax/modem on the server
>while maintaining a stand alone fax machine on the same phone line.
>Ihave a few questions if someone is willing to assist.
>1) Can a dumb terminal/keyboard be used on an NT network using NetBeui
>protocol?
>2) What hardware/software is required to tie in the terminal/keyboard
>to the network?
>3) Who offers reasonably priced terminals these days?
>4) In reguards to the fax situation. Is there a software or hardware
>solution to the problem of two devices using the same phone line?
>Any assistance would be grately appreciated. If you have any documents
>which may help me you can E-Mail them. Again, thank you.
>        Mike R.
>Washington, U.S.A.
>E-Mail: mrush@olympic.net
>
Hi Mike
There is not much chance that the terminals will work.

Some years ago a spec was publicshed for a "PC-Term" that was a dumb
terminal that acted like a PC keyboard and EGA screen, but hooked up
via a serial port. They were specialised devices.Zentec (Santa Clara
and Tallahassee) made one, known as "Genisys" with colour support. LINK
tecjnolelogies (Fremont) mad a monochrome one.

Also, some communication board manufacturers (e.g. Digiboard) had
hardware interfaces that permitted these devices to "talk" to a PC.
They were used mainly as "virtual" terminals on 386 class machines
taking advantage of the VM facilities of the 386 to multi-taks.
The software came from several vendors, notably IGC and Alloy, amongst
others.

There is a company in Boca Raton Citrix that did a multi-user OS/2 and
are rumoured to be doing a multi-user NT.
You would probably need their software.

I do not know what types of terminals your client has -- if you let
me know I can probably tell you their capabilities.
If they are IBM 327x series, forget it -- they hook up totally differently

As far as the fax situation goes, there are several vendors of fax server
software (e.g. Delrina). Each fax machine will need its own line, or a switch
of some sort.
I do not use a fax machine myself -- just a fax cards, software and a scanner
for imported documents. The big plus to this is that I simply trahs
junk faxes without pritning them, and I can use my laser printer for those I want.

Jonathan (I have been there before) Waters

Dumb terminals cannot be used for an NT network.

muzok@msn.com (muzo) wrote:
>Hamish Guthrie <hamishg@lia.co.za> wrote:
>
>>Dumb terminals cannot be used for an NT network.
>
>you know why ? because they are dumb :-)
>
>muzo
>
>standard disclaimer
>

I often use a vt220 terminal session from a unix host to do 
some remote administration tasks on my NT server. For instance, 
start RAS server when I forgot it before leave my 
office......;-)

For this, I use Ataman telnetd server.

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Louis POTY
louisp@sdv.fr
SdV Plurimedia in Strasbourg, FRANCE

Have a look at http://www.citrix.com/
You can find some information about application server information.