From: Victor Bien    
      
   Peter Brown wrote:   
   > Hi Victor   
   >    
   > Victor Bien wrote:   
   >> I have had a Windows XP computer networked to my OS/2 computer for   
   >> years. I access the volumes and print on the attached printer. Now I   
   >> want to move to Win7. Apart from the huge reinstall of applications I   
   >> have to do I in the Windows environment I have a conceptual blockage   
   >> with working out how to retain that connection if possible?   
   >>   
   >> XP connects because I have Netbeui working on it. Netbeui is not   
   >> available for Win7. I have never understood SAMBA or how to get it to    
   >> work.   
   >>   
   >> Another option is NFS but the reading and the potential cut and try   
   >> seems it will blow out.   
   >>   
   >> Anyone here can offer some clues?   
   >>   
   >> Thanks,   
   >>   
   >> Victor Bien   
   >>   
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   >    
   > For sharing files you could try ftp - FireFTP is a useful addon to    
   > Firefox/Seamonkey.   
   >    
   > Does the printer have an ip address or is it a shared printer?   
      
     It's a shared printer.  I use FTP for file access.  I run the OS/2 FTP   
   server and swap files from a Vista laptop which won't connect via Windows   
   networking.  I use to make the FTP server available to the internet to allow   
   fetching files when I'm at client's sites but was so troubled by "hammering" -   
   troublemakers making repeated attempts to login and threatening havoc, I   
   deleted the port forwarding to the OS/2 FTP.  I now safely FTP within my LAN   
   only.  (I installed a secure FTP server on my XP machine - it gets hammered as   
   well but it has an anti-hammering facility to throw the troublemakers off).   
      
     I could buy a small print server with a tcp/ip connection I suppose.  I've   
   never tried to print from OS/2 to a print server.  Can I assume it'll all be   
   straightforward.  That'll just mean that trying to connect the OS/2 to the   
   Windows world is all getting too hard?   
      
      
   >    
   > Regards   
   >    
   > Pete   
      
      
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