Shawn Call wrote:

>      With Win95/8, you can use the windows networking stuff, with the
> NETbui protocol.  It allows you to share printers, files, etc.

  You can even use WIN95 *without* NetBeui, just using Internet-standard
TCP/IP which seems eminently sensible to me to simplify matters since I
use an internet gateway (Linux).

  The only disadvantage I have noted is that the timeouts are a bit
long, so it takes the W95 "Client" a fair while to decide what machines
are *not* presently connected when you perform a network DIR call.

  To run TCP/IP you have to allocate IP addresses to each machine from
the LAN address range 192.168.x.x , and list all machines in a file in
the Windows directory called LMHOSTS (no extension).  e.g.
#------- File: LMHOSTS --------
192.168.1.101   BOBS
192.168.1.102   CAROLS
192.168.1.103   TEDS
192.168.1.110   ALICES
192.168.1.111   BACKROOM
#-------- etc. EOF ------------
  The names are what you called the machines in the "Identification" tab
in Network setup, and the "Workgroup" must be common to all machines,
but these are much the same requirements for NetBeui.

  Win95 does NOT seem to be case-sensitive regarding these names.  YMMV.

  Easy!  Pity this information does not come (in usable form) with W95!
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  Cheers,
        Paul B.