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From: jbvb@ftp.COM (James Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Help connecting DOS based LANtastic and UNIX tcp/ip
Summary: If Lantastic uses SMB protocol (MS/Net), call Syntax (Redmond, WA)
Keywords: help tcp/ip dos lantastic
Message-ID: <536@ftp.COM>
Date: 2 Feb 89 19:33:08 GMT
References: <1273@scicom.alphacdc.com>
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In article <1273@scicom.alphacdc.com>, craig@scicom.alphacdc.com (Craig Anderson) writes:
> LANtastic is a NETBIOS based network.  "LANtastic NOS has been designed
> to run on any network adapter that has a NETBIOS interface", from the
> User's Manual.  We would like to connect the two networks.
> 
> 1) Any advice on what is posssible, and how to go about it?

If it uses the SMB protocol over NETBIOS (implies it is based on MS/Net),
then, if the NETBIOS in uses conforms to RFC 1001/1002, then it might be
able to talk to a Syntax SMB server.  I don't know if they run on 386/ix,
though.  If it uses its own private protocol, this could be implemented
on top of Unix tcp/sockets, but there would be a lot of work required.

> 2) What NETBIOS products support ethernet - tcp/ip.

I know the following to support RFC 1001/1002, and interoperate:

Syntax Unix-based SMB fileservers.
FTP's PC/TCP NETBIOS.
Excelan's LAN Workplace for DOS.
Bridge/3Com's PCS-1 NETBIOS.

In addition, I am aware of a product from Ungermann-Bass, which is supposed
to be compatible, but I have no experience with it, except that an early
version insisted on the wrong (old) IP broadcast address of 0.0.0.0.

I have heard it claimed that SCO's Xenix-Net can work with some Xenix TCP/IP,
and that this is RFC 1001/1002 compatible.  At the time, it wasn't working
with our stuff, and since the testing was taking place elsewhere, I don't
know if they ever got it to run.

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