wow I looked at this briefly when I was moving, but decided to go back to Exchange 5.5 …

the best instructions were in the NT server resource kit. Im amazed it’s still online (they also sold print versions).

https://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windowsnt/4/server/reskit/en-us/net/sur_rpl.mspx?mfr=true

Tcpip was an add-on for NetWare, and I only used it on version 4 to do SNMP polling. It’s really only good for mapping drives. The main problem is that NetWare is… Basically a single program. It doesn’t do process isolation, so one NLM can crash the whole thing down. I’ve seen Oracle for NetWare, although to say it was temperamental is a great understatement.

UNIX, and Windows NT are far superior hosting platforms, and that is why both are still around to this day.

In my experience, the NetWare file and print services for Windows NT, is the way to go, if you really need IPX/SPX, but nobody needs it.

Even Microsoft Windows for Workgroups offers a far superior groupware solution as it not only supports sharing drives and printers, but it also has a simple network chat program, and includes a the mail post office.

It was around this point, 1992 that Microsoft saw the nesicitaty of networking, and bundled it in going forward. The same thing goes for TCP/IP, which was such a big market

OK Thanks for you think you could write a tutorial about settings RPL or first on how to setup LAN Manager (as I can’t find anything on google)

Thanks for Anwsering and Best Regards

PS: Do you know what can I use Netware 3.12 for? (web server over IPX (is this possible?), because I have it installed in virtualbox and got Client for Netware working on DOS (still don’t know how to mound a netware drive), but now I am stuck I don’t even know how to load apps on it (do you know of any apps that required netware?))

you want RIPL, which is what Microsoft used for remote IPL, aka net booting. I’ve only set it up once, and it was in the era of Windows 95, and it was… far far too slow for what we needed, and we dumped it after initially getting it to work.

The server platform would be OS/2, as it was the ‘higher end’ server, along with HPFS/386 which included hooks for ACL’s unlike the normal user mode HPFS.

did you ever play with Microsoft LAN Manager?
if you did, do you how to setup Microsoft LAN Manager for Remotebooting DOS and windows

PS: Can you install LAN maanger as a Server on DOS? (because the option for SERVER is geryed in DOS but works on OS/2 for some reason LAN Manager in DOS can only be workstation)

Thanks for Anwsering and Best Regards

I was thinking of using more so as a server, although I want to figur eout how the display port works, for maybe full screen gaming…

That said, if you overlay a Rhapsody DR2 install, you can use it’s UI…