Helpful suggestion

[Keith D. Miller]

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> From: owner-gmecm at diy-efi.org
> [mailto:owner-gmecm at diy-efi.org]On Behalf
> Of Shannen Durphey
> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 12:21 AM
> To: gmecm at diy-efi.org
> Subject: Re: Helpful suggestion
>
>
> Geez, I was gonna send this offlist.  Seems there's some
> interest in the topic.
>
> Ya know, I pinned the guy (err, kid) that maintains the
> company network down one day and asked about connecting
> the 2 boxes.  He was pretty lost.  If it's not Windows,
> it doesn't work.
>

Typical, if they didn't teach it in collage...

> One pc has windows NT workstation, the other is DOS only.
> I've got a few network cards around.  It only seemed
> natural to connect the two.
>

To connect 2 network cards without a hub, you need to use
a crossover cable, easy to find now that DSL & cable modems
have become common.

> Any sources of info you can recommend?  I'm going to look
> for readme files on the NT machine.  I found a webpage
> that says there might be some info there.
>

A search on the M$ kb using WGAO as a keyword will turn up
much.

> Right now the floppy disk solution works.  Someday I'd
> like to connect the machines together.  Floppy disk drives
> plus garage environment make for trouble.
>

That's why I like networking, don't even have a working
floppy on this 'puter, never use it, don't care. And the
network blows the floppy away.

> Some things I've found:
>
> Workgroup Add-On 3.11 for Dos seems to be the most common
> hit on the search engines. There's some update files
> around. No good pages explaining the set up part yet.
>

Same thing. Windows 3.11 was also known as WfWG, although
there were 2 different versions of 3.11. Setup is pretty easy, if you
can find some disk images to do the install.

Keith
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