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Johann Visagie said:
>Hi Glen,
>
>On Wed, 24 Jun 1998 at 09:54 SAT, GLEN.W.MANN@monsanto.com wrote:
>
>> 1) Client Connectivity - we will have DOS clients, as well as WfW, 
>> Win95, NT, and perhaps even MAC.  WfW, Win95, and NT are easy.  What
>> about DOS and MAC?  Should I use NFS or Samba?
>
>As you say, the SMB-enabled OSes are easy, using Samba.  For DOS boxes and
>Macs to access files (using whichever method) you'll probably need
>(commercial) third party software.  This is the  sort of problem you don't
>have with (say) Netware.

FreeBSD has Netatalk (a free Appletalk implementation) that will keep your
Macs happy.  We also do IPX, so I guess you can be a Netware server as
well.  Maybe you could use that for the DOS boxen?

HTH,

	Scott

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