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Re: small network, How?

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From: leo
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 00:00
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In article <818039506snz@longley.demon.co.uk>
           David@longley.demon.co.uk "David Longley" writes:

> > If W311 likes your network cards it works very nicely ... bog standard
> > NE2000 seem to work OK. I did have some old WD8003 cards which refused 
> > to work at all. Also remember not to share/connect too many drives as 
> > this can cause memory problems
> > 
> I'm using WD8003 cards on a WfWG 3.11 LAB and all seems fine.

Lucky you! I spent about a week trying to get these to work before caving 
in and buying two Trust NE2000+ cards - worked very nicely first time. 

I note that no-one has mentioned the public domain DOS peer to peer 
networking software, NEOS - this should also allow file and printer sharing


-- 
leo
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Subject: Re: small network, How?
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