Re: [SLE] Re: Best M$ os for Samba +1 app

There have been some very fine suggestions here about how to have a dual boot machine and very thought out reasons and to why one os is better than the other. I would like to point out though, that linux has some of the best emulators I have run accross. There is dosemu if it is a dos program or you could use WINE if it is a windows 3.1 program. If I remmeber right WINE is able to run 99.9998% of all Win3.11 programs, then you wouldn't have to worry about dual booting, netowrking or anything. Austin Morgan Jim Osborn wrote:

Kevin replies:

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The original poster could connect to SuSE with tcpip even without SAMBA by just adding a stack. Say Trumpet or whatever and use his Linux box like an old-style Unix shell account. But he has plain ol' 3.1, not WfWG 3.11. So he needs more than a stack; he needs the M$ client from WfWG in order to use his Linux machine with SAMBA like an NT-style browsable app, file & print server. And even then it would suffer from the 8.3 filename limit when accessing files on his SuSE server.

If he has WfWG easily accessible (and does not need to worry about Y2K compliance, or is running it on IBM PCDOS 7 plus Y2K patch or IBM PC DOS 2000, which render 16-bit Windows compliant), then certainly WfWG within its 8.3 limitation would be easier. But if he actually has to spend money to go out and get something for his machine, then one of the flavors of 95 would seem to make the most sense for this Samba client.

Thanks for the insight. I'm out in the sticks where I'm not in a position to pick up discards from folks down the hall, so I probably will have to actually spend money on a M$ os :( I do need the Y2K compliance, though other than setting the system clock, I don't know how a non-compliant os could mess up my app.

I need access to the M$ end of things from the SuSE side almost exclusively; very occasionally will I move data to the M$ side, and I can live with 8.3 filename limits for these files. I'd never try to print anything from the M$ side, etc.

FWIW, the app receives realtime market data and displays it. I want to get to that data from SuSE, both to develop my own replacement for the M$ app, and for various manipulations of the data. Occasionally (once a quarter) the results of the manipulations get imported back into the app's world. The app uses a virtual device driver to verify its dongle, so wabi/wine are out of the question. People seem to run this app in everything from Win3.10 to NT without problems, but as far as I know, I'm the only one in the world that wants to connect it to a Linux network.

Sounds like I should spring for Win95b.

Thanks again,

jimo@eskimo.com

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