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OS/2 warp server
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Original Message
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Name: AArun
Date: March 26, 2001 at 05:13:27 Pacific
Subject: OS/2 warp server
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Comment: I building a home network, I would like to try OS/2 warp server. Dose anyone know were download free copy to try
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Response Number 1
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Name: Thomas Kunert
Date: March 26, 2001 at 06:19:47 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)what version of OS/2 do you own?
OS/2 Warp 4 comes with 'mpts' (network tool), so you be able to configure a network as a peer-to-peer or as a client-server net.
IBM-Server is avialible for OS/2 Warp 3, i believe, somewhere in the net ..... But after all: OS/2 is only to buy - not for free ......, asfaik OS/2 WARP Server too ...
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Response Number 2
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Name: Lispeb
Date: March 26, 2001 at 17:53:46 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)If you shop around, you can probably get it
for around $50. I used to have OS/2 Warp
Server 4.0, but I sold it to a person in
Chicago for about $100. Keep in mind though
that OS/2 Warp Server 4.0 is really based on
the Warp 3 kernel, not the Warp 4 kernel, so
it isn't as good. I personally would
recommend some version of Linux, because even
if you don't like Linux, it is much easier to
control as a server. Linux is what I now use.
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Response Number 5
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Name: Andy B
Date: March 30, 2001 at 20:48:57 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Just to get the versions clear: the latest version of Warp Server is called 'Warp Server for e-Business' (WSeB). IBM has undertaken the task of bringing on a source convergence between WSeB and Warp 4 last year, introducing the 'Aurora convenience pack' for the server and the 'Merlin convenience pack' for the client. So yes, you have more or less the same software levels, just some more features in the server; the kernels are basically identical (except for some goody stuff).
Lispeb, I don't get what you mean that Linux is much easier to control as a Server. Both systems have to be learned, and controlling (whatever that means) WSeB seems to be pretty straightforeward to me.
The only thing I find hard to control is NT because it so damn intransparent (and next to impossible to administer remotely just via cli).
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Response Number 7
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Name: Andy B
Date: April 12, 2001 at 06:11:17 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I think it is. But I've been doing OS/2 since v2.0 (back in '92) so I can't really give an unbiased opinion.
If someone is a computer newbie, I presume that setting up OS/2 or Win NT is probably easier than setting up one of the free unices.
But you will definetely have problems getting WSeB for free - it's payware (and I won't tell where it can be pirated.).
If someone is just interested in getting to know OS/2, there will be a demo CD of the soon to be released eCommStation available (www.ecommstation.com).
I think the cheapest legal way to get a real file server under OS/2 nowadays would be to grab a copy from eBay and then have a go with Samba.
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