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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Seeking info on Lantastic...
Keywords: LANtastic, small network, Oh boy!
Message-ID: <25c9f569.6ae3@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 2 Feb 90 21:02:33 GMT
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In article <10595@saturn.ucsc.edu> lance@helios.ucsc.edu (Lance Bresee) writes:
>We use that here.  It is OK.  One machine has to be designated
>as host, and any shared devices must be physical devices on
>the host.  You can connect as many machines as you want.  We
>chose it because of cost and low memory overhead.

I helped a local businessman set up a three-pc LANtastic system.  We set up
one of the systems as the main file server and Deskjet printer server, and
one of the other systems as the dot-matrix printer server.

You can have as many servers as you like on the network.  Any node can
access any device that is on a server system.

This is done by providing two separate programs, REDIRECTOR and SERVER.
The redirector program allows you to use shared resources as if they are
on your own pc.  The server program allows other nodes on the network
to access devices on your pc.

It's a very simple and logical arrangement, and doesn't require much ram.



-- 
John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu             -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching 
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