At 12:40 PM 2/5/96 -0500, Sick Puppy wrote:
>My hind brain keeps telling my forebrain that somewhere it read that
>Windows 95 and Windows NT has been banned on some networks because of the
>problems they created when connecting to other operating systems. Could
>some kind soul e-mail me pointers to articles or postings on this subject,
>please?
>
> Sick Puppy, tCDE
> cDm
>
Maybe you're thinking of the problem Novell networks had with Windows 95?
Since Windows 95 answers the Netware client GetNearestServer call with a
packet claiming to be a Netware server, it can seriously confuse Netware
clients if there is no other server on the LAN - the client will time out
trying to log into the 95 machine (after all, it said it was a server...)
and then fail. Even if there is a true server on the network, some clients
will still get the 95 packet first. Don't know if this has been fixed yet.
sandy bryant
kesmai corp.
sandy @
kesmai .
com
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