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From: alistair@microsoft.UUCP (Alistair BANKS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: connecting OS/2 across Token Ring
Message-ID: <56169@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jul 90 19:38:24 GMT
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Reply-To: alistair@microsoft.UUCP (Alistair BANKS)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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What you have described, using named pipes, is a feature of Microsoft 
Lan Manager 2.0 called Peer Services. This is missing from IBM Lan Server 1.2
but IBM have committed that a future version of their product
will include this technology. For now you should buy a
copy of Lan Manager 2.0 from Microsoft, or another LM 2.0 vendor.

If you wish to use the raw netbios interface, this is available today
in IBMs 1.2 Lan Server. You can use this interface to talk between 
workstations - it is more complex than using named pipes and doesnt have any
security for re-connect features, but you can do the job today!

Alistair Banks
OS/2 Group
Microsoft