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From: f0057@uafhp.uucp (James E. Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Take your best shot at solving this scenario, eh?
Keywords: Token ring, PCs, AS/400, etc.
Message-ID: <2636@cveg.uucp>
Date: 22 Jun 89 14:34:34 GMT
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Organization: College of Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
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Okay, I am looking for any help I can get.  I don't know much about what I am
doing and would like to draw on this vast pool of knowledge (read YOU!).  We
have:

1 AS/400
~50 local PC clones
~150 remote PC clones
~50 remote AS/400 tubes
and a few remote AS/400 printers

We plan to install in the future remote AS/400s here and there about the USA.

What we want (ideal solution with my limited knowledge):

A way to connect all these things together so that the PCs can log into the
AS/400(s) and everybody can share files, printers, etc. as much as can be had.

Solutions that have been bounced around:

Banyan file server and everything on Token ring (IBM).  This solution doesn't
support the remote tubes and printers.

IBM PC/RT as a file server and token ring.  I am not sure what this can do.
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
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