Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 19:34:26 -0600 (CST) From: Hector Gonzalez Jaime <cacho@eureka.gdl.iteso.mx> To: "Hugh S. Ellis" <hellis@domus.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP/IP stack for PCs Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9501041914.A853-0100000@eureka.gdl.iteso.mx> In-Reply-To: <199501040144.UAA00314@domus.domus.com>
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On Tue, 3 Jan 1995, Hugh S. Ellis wrote: > While FreeBSD is really cool, I think I may get some resistance to converting > all my users from DOS to FreeBSD. Given that they may be running DOS, or > worse, DOS + Novell, what is the best way to allow them to access my FreeBSD > server? > You don't have to convince them, you could set-up a nice e-mail environment with pegasus-mail (for netware, freeware, check risc.ua.edu, cd to /pub/network/pegasus, and download the latest version of pmail, winpmail, and mercury) pmail is for ms-dos or windows with netware, and mercury will connect it to your freebsd host, without a dedicated pc for the work, it runs on your netware server. Other applications, you can find with archie, look for: xappeal (xserver for msdos, needs xdm on freebsd) cutcp (now rutgers tcp, former ncsa, former clarkson) this comes with a telnet, ftp, ping and a tn3270, and with lp clients, files will be zipped as tel??bin.zip, tel??src.zip and tel??doc.zip, depending on the version. most free tcp applications for msdos/windows work with a packet driver, if your card comes with one, use it, if not, clarkson used to provide an extended set of packet drivers, you may find the collections on many sites. for novell, you should use the odipkt packet driver, and odi drivers, or apps that use odi directly, such as the pc-kermit, and the rutgers telnet. for windows, you should download the a winsocket implementation, such as the trumpet winsock, then look at the apps directories for winsockets, (look at sunsite.unc.edu) there are gopher, http (mosaic uses winsockets, as netscape does, netscape IS something to look at!) Your users will then be able to use FreeBSD, without knowing they are using unix. > I have been told that there are some reasonable public domain TCP stacks for > PCs running Windows. Any recommendations as to what I should be looking for? > Also, if I can tune up my firewall, I would like to get them running X. Are > there versions of X for MS-Windows out there? What is likely to be most > compatible with my FreeBSD system? > > Thanks, > > Hugh Ellis > Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. >
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