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>For a user base of about 120 PCs and 50 Unix WorkStations
>and X-Terminals, would it be advisable to consider a UNIX
>platform to run LAN Manager to serve the PC audience.
>
>If I chose an Intel-based platform for the LAN Manager, would
>something like a dual processor Compaq SystemPro running OS/2
>with (say) 16 MB of memory be adequate?
>
>Is it possible to run LAN Manager on the latest release of OS2
>or would I have to use OS/2 1.3?  

Well, the LANMAN 2.1 manual says "to decide which version of OS/2 to install,
consult your network specialist". Over the Xmas holiday me and a friend of mine
tried to install LANMAN 2.1 under IBM OS/2 2.0 since in that case we were the
network specialists. What happened was that when we ran setup from the LANMAN
installation disks, the setup program only gave us the option of installing
the workstation (client) software, not the server. Installation completed
successfully but then the machine crashed during the next reboot so we went
back and used the older MS OS/2 1.3 because we figured that:

1) It _might_ be more stable since LANMAN 2.1 ships with it (the network is
in Greece and we are in the UK so we can't go back there and fix things if
something nasty happens) and

2) The MS OS/2 1.3 only takes up 11 or so Megs of disk space compared to the
20 or so that IBM OS/2 takes up.

We haven't had time to evaluate performance but it seems to be quite fast,
although I'd recommend more than one server for that number of PCs.

Vartan Narinian <vsn@ic.ac.uk>
Imperial College, London