RE: Remote Dial In to AS400

[Jerome Draper <jdraper@xxxxxxx>]

At 10:22 AM 12/4/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Pat,
>
>Earlier, Chuck Lewis said:
>>I'm runningWin APPC Remote on a Toshiba Tecra notebook and don't have ANY
problems... Of course >I'm running NT and not 95 or it's billiable service
pack 98... And you DO NOT need the Net Soft >router. I thought so too but
found out otherwise. And you can STILL do file transfer !
>
>When we tried winappc, we had to use the included netsoft router for
autosync, or at least we thought we did.  Wanting to give synapse the
benefit of the doubt, my question was in reference to Chucks earlier
statment that it is possible to run winappc (presumably in autosync mode)
without the netsoft router.
>
>Does anyone know the real answer?

Synapse WinAPPC requires use of a router (typically Netsoft) when
connecting via autosync to an SDLC comm line/synchronous modem (typically
IBM 7855 or UDS V.3400) on the AS400.

Period.

Synapse did not write the Netsoft Router but they did write many of the
16bit clients that use APPC routers like Netsoft Elite, Attachmate Rally!,
DCA Irma/400, Micro Integration 5250 for APPC, Connectronnix Wintronnix,
and Novell 5250 (a Rally! knockoff) among others.

They recently released a TCP/IP only client called NetWolf that does
display, printer, and sql based file transfer over TCP/IP.  WinAPPC has
similar features as well as having APPC style connections.  This is used in
remote situations where WAN's or RAS facilities exist.

SNA (and APPC) is going to the same landfill as micro channel, OS/2, token
ring, and twinax.

Chuck is talking about using WinAPPC as a remote client to the Synapse
RemoteAPPC server where no router is required at the client.

This should clarify what Synapse has for remotes.

Best,

Jerry



Jerry Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
Specializing in connecting PC's, Windows, MAC's, and LAN's to the AS/400
Representing Synapse, Apple, IBM, UDS, Nlynx, MI, DCI, Netsoft, etc.
(415) 457-3431; (415) 258-1658fax; jdraper@wco.com
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