OT: Fwd: New Product: Win4Lin Home, and Special Offer

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 16:53, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 
> >Those b*st*rds! I waited a few months to upgrade from a 2.4 to a 2.6
> >kernel on my home computer because I needed to upgrade my Win4Lin to do
> >so. So, last month or so, I shelled out the $90 for Win4lin 5. They were
> >probably waiting for me before making the announcement. Still, it does
> >as advertised. My wife gets to do banking, which is the only reason we
> >have it. The product is solid and worth considering if you need to run a
> >few Windows programs.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> Ths lack of windows networking and remote printing might be a problem 
> for many.
> 
> Maybe I'm confused. What does the full version version do regarding 
> networking that lite does not? Here is the comparison from the web page:
> 
> #
> lite version: Winsock 2 Networking
> 
> full version: Winsock 2 networking or VNET with virtual network card   
> and second IP address support for Microsoft networking

Normal winsock does all normal stuff. Your browser and e-mail will work.
I do not use VNET. If you are accessing remote shares in the Linux host
via samba, they are available to win4lin, who is none-the-wiser and sees
them as local files. VNET must be for special network situations,
perhaps not running TCP/IP.

If a remote printer is set up via samba and the normal linux printer
queue, win2lin will see it. The remote printint is only if you expect
windows to set up a printer interface on its own.

> #
> 
> I don't know what the added functionality does.
> 
> ken
> 
> 
> 
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