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From: mshiels@tmsoft.uucp (Michael A. Shiels)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: OS/2 LanManager 2.0 question (very technical!)
Message-ID: <1991Jan11.121906.881@tmsoft.uucp>
Date: 11 Jan 91 12:19:06 GMT
Reply-To: mshiels@tmsoft.UUCP (Michael A. Shiels)
Followup-To: comp.dcom.lans
Organization: BMB Compuscience Canada Ltd./MaS Network Software and Consulting
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I am hoping someone @microsoft will see and respond to this but amybe
someone else knows things about this.

a) we are an OS/2 Lan Manager reseller/whatever

b) we currently use our own home brew LAN which has a very nice feature.
   it allows what we call hierarchical networks.  Ie lan A has a "server"
   and a workstation on lan A which just happens to be the "server" for
   lan B.  So the lan B server actually does the equivalent of net use's
   from the lan A server and then provides them as drives to users on the
   lan B network.

BIG PROBLEM.  This doesn't work under Lan Manager.  So you also can't do things
like have your server bring in a bunch of DECnet or NFS drives and share
them with all your users.

Any luck in this changing?