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Re: Telnetting to NT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geof Goodrum)
Wed Aug 7 18:27:45 1996
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 09:15:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geof Goodrum <ggoodrum@perigee.ncdc.noaa.gov>
To: Robert Wuest <RobertWuest@kemet.com>
cc: "Eric W. Sorensen" <sorensen@argo.net>,
Linux net <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.91.960806195707.20477A-100000@zeus>
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Eric W. Sorensen wrote:
> Win 3.11 and Win95 Do not allow telnet access - If you think about it
> for a minute, those machines are strictly single user boxes. Much
> unlike UNIX, they do not provide the ability to manage users, multi-user
> accounts, user id's group id's and the like. They are strictly client
> machines capable of only running client software. UNIX is
> client/server, WIN 95 and Win 311 are not.
...
> Also, since all three of these operating systems are GUI based, it
> would be impossible to use them over any type of serial line
> connection. Just as with UNIX, the X-Windows system can only be run
> from a system console.
>
> Eric Sorensen
> On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Robert Wuest wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have two computers running Linux (V 2.0.11), one at home, one at the
> > office. I can connect them using PPP.
> > The office computer is on a Netware LAN (V4.10) using IPX. Is is possible to
> > dial into my Linux box and telnet (or some other means) into other computers
> > in the office running NT, Win 3.11, and Win 95? Can you point me to any docs
> > on how to do this.?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Robert
Actually, as Win95/Win3.11/WinNT have peer-to-peer networking, you can
access shared files and devices from Linux. You can also access Novell
NetWare files and services.
There are several options. You can forward IPX packets over the PPP
interface and access the files/services directly from your home Linux
system, or access the files/services through the Linux system at work. It
depends upon your needs, but I'd recommend the latter for better
performance, and you don't have to setup a PPP-IPX configuration.
For more information, read the IPX-HOWTO (for PPP and NetWare options),
and see the ncpfs.txt (NetWare) and smbfs.txt (Windows for Workgroups)
files in recent Linux kernel distributions
(under Documentation/filesystems/).
DISCLAIMER: The comments above are my own and may not represent the views
of my employer.
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