Subj : Network setup To : mark lewis From : Roy J. Tellason Date : Wed Nov 06 2002 04:06 am mark lewis wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason: RJT> Say, do you happen to know what protocol it is that win3.11 RJT> uses? I have a machine around here with a bunch of games on RJT> it that I'd like to tie in to the LAN here... ml> assuming you mean, wfwg, netbios... however, it is plain netbios... ml> not over tcp/ip... yu can also do tcp/ip on them but i don't ml> remember if you can do netbios over tcp/ip... And I suppose doing tcp/ip on them would mean getting some extra add-on stuff from the m$ website and loading that in... :-) ml> its been a while since i've played with that stuff... Me too. I'm just remembering a bunch of games and such that were fine for a couple of the grandkids when they were littler (they're both now 12, and do the w98 box) and I've got one who's just turned 5 that I'd like to resurrect a 386 or 486 and do this stuff for. Not that it *needs* to be on the LAN, but it'd be nice if I can manage it. ml> last time was when adding some systems in a travel agency to their ml> existing twinax wired lan... or was that tokenring? hummm... must ml> have been tokenring as i recall that's where i got the tokenring ml> port enabler... Still have a couple of those cards kicking around that I'm sure I'll never use, any more than I'll use the couple of arcnet cards I have here. Heck, I forget if it even has a NIC in it. I'll have to look one of these days... --- * Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-838-8539 (1:270/615) .