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sholmste@novell.com (Shawn Holmstead) writes:

>In article <chris.206.728167640@marvin.ag.uidaho.edu> chris@marvin.ag.uidaho.edu (Chris Magagna) writes:
>>I have a faculty with a CD-ROM drive in his machine about to connect to our 
>>3.11 network.  He wants to make this drive available to a few of his 
>>research associates.  
>>
>>Our original plan was to install Windows for Workgroups on the three 
>>machines, but our local software dealer informs me that W4W and NetWare 
>>cannot coexist (presumably because of the falling out between Novell and 
>>Microsoft), and he recommends Lantastic.

Windows for Workgroups and Netware coexist without any problems.  Your
software dealer is terribly uninformed.

Windows for Workgroups works much better than Lantastic+Windows.  One catch
you want to look out for, however, is that in order for a workstation to
share its resources (like your faculty member's machine), it must be able to
run in Windows enhanced mode.  This means you need a 386sx or better with
2 Mb RAM or (hopefully) more.

>>
>>Lantastic will be a more expensive solution (Microsoft gives great 
>>educational discounts), plus it's an unknown quantity because we've never 
>>used it here before.
>>
>>So, faithful net, will W4W work with NetWare, or should I go with Lantastic, 
>>or is there something behind door #3?  Thanks for any help.

>You might want to consider NetWare Lite 1.1.  NetWare Lite co-exists fine
>with NetWare 3.11 and will allow you to share the CD drive.  Just load the
>NetWare Lite server program on the machine with the CD, and the client
>program on the 2 other machines who want to access the CD.  You will have to
>have 3 copies of NetWare Lite though because each copy is serialized.

NetWare Lite 1.1 is a bigger pain in the neck to integrate with Netware 3.11
than Windows for Workgroups or Lantastic.  Its features, performance, and
Windows support are all below average.

I've used all three of the products in various configurations.  I would
GUESS (all I can do, without knowing specifics of your situation) that
WfWG would be your best bet.

Oh, yeah, I forgot the obvious: if you don't expect to use Windows primarily,
then WfWG is probably the wrong choice.  Go with Lantastic.
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