Okay, thanks to Nigel and Greywolf, I got both ftp and 
telnet up and working on NetBSD. The next step was to 
plug my NetBSD laptop into the LAN at work my four 
WinNT's.

But I find that since all four NT's are workstations, and 
not one a server. So I can only FTP from NetBSD into NT, 
and only telnet from NT into NetBSD. That's kind of a 
drag...

Short of upgrading one of the NT's from workstation to 
server (which I'm sure the boss will pay for) is there a 
work-around that anybody knows of?

Like, maybe...a program to get NetBSD to join the NT 
"workgroup" along with the four NT's just like it was one 
of their own? Within the workgroup, all the NT's can see 
each other. From one NT (via GUI, aka "My Computer") I 
can look into all the others, and so forth. If logged in 
as admin, I can do anything I want on any one or all of 
them.

These four NT's are isolated from the outside world on 
their own private LAN. It seems that there shold be a way 
for NetBSD to talk to them like "one of the guys", i.e. 
join the "workgroup" of four NT's. 

Three of these four NT's are running multi-axis 
servohydraulic testing rigs 24/7. They are sequestered 
from the company inter/intranet conection because I 
forbade it two years ago on account of all the in-house 
virus problems (not yet completely solved). But...I 
wouldn't mind fixing one of them up with a modem. And if 
need be, I could scrounge up an old PC, install NetBSD 
and mgetty, and plug that into the LAN.

But it wouldn't be worth the effort unless I could get 
NetBSD to be accepted into the workgroup. But if I could, 
then I'd be able to call in from home (like on Saturday) 
and view the logs instead of having to physically 
eye-ball the NT's in person (which would be ultra cool 
'cause I'm on straight salary). Most of the time I have 
to come in is only because maintenance so often fails to 
regularly change the cooling water filters so that my 
hydraulic pumps have overheated. I'd like not to have to 
bother when stuff is still running okay.

But...I really want to figure it out via NetBSD ('cause 
I'm really quite sick of both NT and Win98).

Thanks

Gan Starling
Kalamazoo MI USA

PS -- It's kind of a shame, really. MTS, the testing 
software company for these NT's originally wrote it all 
this stuff on UNIX, then some years ago they ported it to 
NT (abandoning UNIX). You can tell because it still runs 
on X (via Hummingbird) so that when I click on any NT-ish 
exit box I get a warning which says "This will end your 
X session...". Alas and alack.

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