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Article #590Re: Networking/LAN woes!!
From: Tom Bird
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 00:00
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In article <ILrWkgAwJm73Ew8Z@ghastly.demon.co.uk>, 'Dungeon' Dave <Dungeon@SpamNot.Here> writes >.. and it came to pass that Duncan W Kennedy <duncank@otterso >n.demon.co.uk> uttered forth: >> >>I shall regret saying this as I am about to add a Win NT workstation in >>a couple of weeks and I am superstitious about nothing - but computers! > >Don't worry too hard - NT also uses NetBEUI, so network >browsing between your various Billy$hit machines will be >painless. > >However, if you're using TCP/IP on one (for internet connectivity, >presumably) you may be advised to ditch NetBEUI and stick just to >TCP/IP throughout (although there's some network speed >implications concerning M$'s implementation of TCP/IP) I use TCP/IP exclusively on my LAN which consists 1 WinNT box, 1 Win98, 1 Win95 (laptop) and 2 Linux. It all works very fast although the Linuxes all piss on NT and 9x in terms of network speed. All of them, including the Linuxes are using the SMB filesystem to share stuff to the Windowses although the Linuxes use NFS to talk to each other. TB Busby the cat 1984 - 22.9.1999 :(
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025cc,c47c11e7b6095439 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025cc,public X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,c47c11e7b6095439 X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public From: Tom Bird <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Networking/LAN woes!! Date: 1999/09/28 Message-ID: <NmdHEmAwAS83EwnY@dbqa.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 530630503 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: dbqa.demon.co.uk:194.222.32.233 References: <588.934T2800T12065120@redrobe.demon.co.uk> <938028239.18454.0.nnrp-12.d4e48b20@news.demon.co.uk> <kKbVDCAjKV63EwgH@urban75.demon.co.uk> <1008.935T1700T6714676@redrobe.demon.co.uk> <KXyOUEAFlo63EwVJ@urban75.demon.co.uk> <lvC+iAAme063EwyQ@otterson.demon.co.uk> <ILrWkgAwJm73Ew8Z@ghastly.demon.co.uk> To: uk.comp.os.win95,demon.tech.pc X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 938593493 nnrp-08:26122 NO-IDENT dbqa.demon.co.uk:194.222.32.233 Organization: Tom's TeamServer MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: Tom Bird <nrp@dbqa.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.win95,demon.tech.pc