Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato!hamish From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: SCO TCP/IP <-> Novell Netware/386 Message-ID: <1969.2719b33a@waikato.ac.nz> Date: 15 Oct 90 00:01:46 GMT References: Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Lines: 59 In article , mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes: > We have a Novell Ethernet with about 10 systems on it, and a SCO > TCP/IP Ethernet with 2 systems on it (but probably expanding in the > near future). We'd like to link the TCP/IP and Novell networks so > users on the SCO ODT machines can access the Novell server's drives, > and users on the Novell workstations can send mail to the ODT > machines, as well as access the ODT drives through NFS and possibly > telnet/rlogin/ftp/etc. to the ODT machines. Some questions: > > 1. Is it okay to put the TCP/IP and Novell networks on the same > Ethernet cable? I know Ethernet packets is Ethernet packets, but will > Novell and/or ODT just ignore packets it doesn't understand? > Yep! We have Novell, TCP/IP, Appletalk, LAT, Decnet and maybe more on ours. > 2. If it's okay to do (1), then I suppose we could just use something > like PC-NFS plus NCSA Telnet on the PC's, right? > Ahhhh... Firstly, Novell and TCP/IP (or NFS) are completely different. Although you can use both at the same time, we have had problems here, where NOvell wanted lots of virtual drives and PC-NFS wouldn't give them away (It only needed 2). > 3. Again, if it's okay to do (1), are there versions of IPX and NETx > for SCO Unix? > Not that I've ever heard of IPX NETx doing TCP/IP > 4. If it isn't okay to do (1), then is there a program for MS-DOS that > we could use to connect the two? I'd prefer to not have to buy a > separate network bridge or router, especially considering that we're a > computer reseller and thus have lots of spare PC's lying around. > Haven't head of one. Maybe now that the accounting print server is working I could do with something else to do? :) > Sorry if these are absurdly simple questions or have been recently > discussed, but as you've probably already figured out, I'm a novice > network administrator... > > -- > Marc Unangst | > mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | "Bus error: passengers dumped" > ....!umich!leebai!mudos!mju | -- ============================================================================== | Hamish Marson | Internet hamish@waikato.ac.nz | | Computer Support Person | Phone (071)562889 xt 8181 | | Computer Science Department | Amiga 3000 for ME! | | University of Waikato | | ============================================================================== |Disclaimer: Anything said in this message is the personal opinion of the | | finger hitting the keyboard & doesn't represent my employers | | opinion in any way. (ie we probably don't agree) | ==============================================================================