Subj : Re: Networking my Vintage Homelab
To   : deepthaw
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun Nov 26 2023 21:22:00

-=> deepthaw wrote to All <=-

 de> I'm slowly piecing together a vintage homelab. Right now I have a 486
 de> dual booting MS-DOS and OS/2 Warp 3, and a PIII running OS/2 Warp 4.

 de> Any recommendations on good ways to get these two talking to each
 de> other, while expanding it to others in the future? Netware? Samba?
 de> Whatever IBM calls all those weird things OS/2 comes with?


 MS Lan Manager was the only "real" way to get OS/2 and DOS talking.
 Pain in the butt. If you want to go real retro, setting up a Netware
 3.11 server would definitely have all of the protocols, at a horrendous
 cost of complication.

 If memory serves, there was some way to connect DOS via Samba, but it's
 been years since I'd even thought about that.

 When I ran the two, I used Lantastic and created a DOS VDM in OS/2 to
 talk to the DOS network using the DOS Lantastic stack and it worked
 amazingly well. Any DOS peer-to-peer network should work similarly -
 personal netware, maybe?


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