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Re: NetBIOS or NetBIOS over TCP/IP in today's world...any need?

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On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:10:11 +0000 (UTC), Doug Bissett
<dougb007!SPAM@telus.net> wrote:

>> As the subject says...is there a real requirement in a home LAN setup where I 
>> have a single OS/2 machine and multiple Win (XP) computers to run any of these 
>> setups?
> 
> Probably not. XP can probably be convinced to connect to NETBIOS, if 
> you install the windows support for it, but it does limit you to no 
> more than 2 GB files.  Likewise, NETBIOS over TCP/IP can probably be 
> used, with a LOT of messing around in the windows machines. It is 
> probably not worth the effort.

It is very little effort to install this stuff on Windows and make it
work. Nothing like what you imply anyway - "LOT of messing" and "convince".
Yet again you seem not to know what you're talking about.
I, on the other hand, have had this setup on over 80 machines and do know.

>> My interconnectivity between the machines is accomplished through FTP, that 
>> really means an occasional file x-fer...the printer is networked, scanner is 
>> connected to my OS/2 machine only.
> 
> For the occasional file, FTP is probably the best option.

For the user's stated objectives, I wouldn't bother with anything other
than FTP either.

>> I have also tried NFS, which appeared to be OK. Looked at Samba, but I have not 
>> done enough research to really understand what base OS/2 components are required
>> (if any) to make this work.

TCP/IP only, AIUI, but I have never used it.

> In my experience, SAMBA (the server) works pretty good,

Do you not know the difference between "good" and "well"?
"It works well" is proper English.

>> Basically, I have no real extensive file sharing requirements...so does it make 
>> sense to run any of these setups?

Probably not.

>> I continually run into problems attempting to install updated device 
>> drivers...and each and every time I narrow this down to an out-of-memory 
>> condition. Therefore, I am on a mission to remove as much of the overhead as 
>> possible.

Guesswork.

> I assume that you are running out of shared memory space. 

Guesswork.

> Eliminate all unused IFS lines in CONFIG.SYS. I quit using HPFS a 
> couple of years ago, and that freed up a lot of shared memory space

IFSs load into Kernel memory space. You ignored that the last time I told
you, but you blithely repeat your stock phrases.

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  Re: NetBIOS or NetBIOS over TCP/IP in today's world...any need? "Doug Bissett" <dougb007!SPAM@telus.net> - 2013-02-15 04:10 +0000
    Re: NetBIOS or NetBIOS over TCP/IP in today's world...any need? Paul Ratcliffe <abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78> - 2013-02-15 09:42 +0000
      Re: NetBIOS or NetBIOS over TCP/IP in today's world...any need? "Doug Bissett" <dougb007!SPAM@telus.net> - 2013-02-15 23:56 +0000
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