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From: RAF@CU.NIH.GOV (Roger Fajman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: PC networks based on TCP/IP
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Date: 20 May 91 23:22:40 GMT
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Is there anyone out there sucessfully running 3Com 3+Open or Microsoft
LAN Manager over TCP/IP?  I'm especially interested if you are
internetworking it with routers.  What TCP/IP implementation are you
using?  We already have PC/TCP from FTP Software.  Also, are you using
a mail package such as cc:Mail or Microsoft Mail (formerly Network
Courier) instead of or in addition to SMTP or POP?  We are heavy users
of 3Com 3+Share and need to move to something else, for obvious
reasons.

I am also interested if anyone is using TCP/IP protocols such as NFS,
SMTP, and POP in place of PC LAN operating systems such as Novell,
Microsoft LAN Manager, and Banyan Vines.  Has anyone done it in a
PC-based environment without Unix servers?  I doubt that a lot of our
3+Share LAN administrators would take kindly to a suggestion that they
also must learn Unix in addition to DOS and OS/2, even if that is
technically the most sensible thing to do.  We do have a large central
Unix machine, but it's not really prepared to take on the job of
replacing hundreds of 3+Share servers.