🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998 15:15:42 -0000, spug@intlog.demon.co.uk (Steve
Parry) wrote:

>I don't know whether these are the right groups for this sort of
>question, please feel free to tell me if not.

It's as good a place as any and if anyone can help get quarts into
pint pots the good folk at dtpc can.

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>These are 486 Sx50's with 213Mb HDD and memory varying
>between 4 and 16 Mb. It is possible that a fairly powerful machine
>coud be acquired too if necessary.They would like to run W98(!) on
>them. 

Sorry to sound negative, but forget it. You may get W98 to load and
run but they will be virtually unusable.

>Because of the small Hdds, is it possible for the OS to be on
>another machine so that they could bo booted to DOS and then run
>windows from a remote? 

I guess you could get something along these lines to work - I'd be
interested to know how - but W95/98 will run even slower as a result.

>Would it be necessary to have separate copies
>of W98 (or 95) on the remote system, one for each workstation? 

No, but you would almost certainly need separate registries and
swapfiles - probably held on the "client" had disk.

>Would
>this be a client/server arrangement or peer-to-peer?

Peer-to-peer

>I have bought an 8 port hub, and some NIC's just reallly to play with.
>I have rigged two of the computers up using WFW 3.11. I can access the
>other hard drive and can chat and pop-up.

Well done! For machines of this spec, WFWG is a sensible solution.

> I cant so far use mail. (I
>created a WGPO, but have now forgotten the password, do I just delete
>the directory and start again?) 

Basically, yes. And delete a couple of ini files from the workstations
(msmail.ini and ????? sorry can't remember)

>How do become a new user of the WGPO?

You need to run the MS Mail Administrator program which you used to
create the PostOffice to add new users.

>I also can not access the CD rom on one of the computers, I have set
>it as a shared drive but the other computer finds the share name and
>reports "no files found", and the CD rom does not even spin up when it
>does this.

Not sure. When you say you cannot acces the CD on one of the
computers, do you mean that you can access the CD on others? I've not
had a problem the couple of times I've tried this, though is is rather
fun watching the system grind to a halt when you get a number of
people trying to access the same CD :)

>As you can see, what I need is a good all round beginner's guide to
>networking. Does anyone know of such a resource on the net?

Sorry, again I can't help. But it sounds like you are going along the
right lines if you've got so much done already. You can try asking
*specific*  questions here, as you come across problems. You may get
half a dozen different answers, some of which may even work.
 
>Also I get "list of servers not available" when I try to do
>things...(cant remember which things, its getting late)

Sorry, not specific enough <G> It's not even clear whether you mean
whilst building/administering your network, or searching the web!

>On a network, is it poss to share computer power, ie if one has say a
>486sx50 8Mb RAM and a PII 450 128Mb RAM is the 486 machine's
>performance going to be enhanced?

No

>if anyone could spare the time to have a bash at these Q's I would be
>very grateful. 


-- 
Tim Stannard