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Here's how to Get OS/2 and XP to talk via NetBIOS

Started by RobertM, 2007.07.05, 02:01:55

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RobertM

Quote from: ddan on 2008.08.08, 20:53:24
As a more general solution, saw a LinkSys NAS box at an office supply store, $100 US. Has FTP and HTTP servers, holds two HDs. Could avoid some trouble, at least allow ECS access to files when Vista is having one of it fits.

This solution will also work with OS/2 and Vista if the FTP and HTTP servers are running natively on either OS. This is the current method I use to share files between an XP and a bunch of OS/2 and eCS machines. The FTP and Web servers are all running on the OS/2 server.

The only problem I have run into is that FireFTP on... any platform (unless they've finally addressed the issue) has problems with large files. Usually, I run FileZilla on the Windows machine and transfer to and from there to the Warp machines.

-Robert


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FileZilla is v.kewl and portable as a server, so I am not surprised. There is also ADS which can be used in the same way as a file server on a network with different OS/OSes talking to each other anyway, using just ftp servers seems like a great work around instead of direct NICs between OSes that may or may not {see each other} going online and running ftp native that will work, taking out the index.html file of the root server folder can force browsers of different OSes to connect as FTP servers but you may only see subfolders and files in the root servers folder not the whole enchilada which would be if you went Lan wise/with NICS. Which I could not comment on as I have no direct experience, Robert is on the right track here I suppose and I would like to make os/2 warp 4 server and Vista work on the same LAN but right now that will have to wait until I get the rig back up we talked about on another thread...hey I read something about some freeBSD talking to UNIX but for me that is waaaaaaaaaaay out there! Perhaps Solaris would talk to UNIX without alot of hoopla...and therefore if it did, talk directly to OS/2
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