From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 5 13:13:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA25142 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 13:13:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA25132 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 13:13:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA06742; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 13:15:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 13:15:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "J.C. Archambeau" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPX Support? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, J.C. Archambeau wrote: > I read on the web about the Linux-IPX howto. Apparently, Linux has > virtually full IPX support (client, routing, server and printer sharing) > with an external package known as ipxtools. I don't know how well it works > though. Consequently, I also did look into Samba. That package will > serve my purpose just as well as having full IPX support under FreeBSD. > It's basically a toss up between how I want to implement the connectivity > via IPX or Samba. I only looked at it briefly but it seems that Samba can > be compiled as an NLM for a Netware server as well. Ah yes. I had forgotten about Samba. I figured you were set for a Novell compatible config and not just what was available. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major