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Other Network Connectivity
Over the past several months, beyond the improvements that have been made in the TCP/IP network connectivity
and the release of the Client Services for NetWare, a great number of additional advanced connectivity products
have been released for Windows NT from third-party vendors.
Banyan VINES® and DEC® PathWorks™
Both Banyan and Digital Equipment are already delivering their client redirectors for Windows NT. For the Banyan
VINES redirector that allow a Windows NT Workstation to function as a client on a Banyan VINES network, call
(800) 2BANYAN. The VINES redirector is also available via the Banyan VINES BBS at [phone].
Digital Equipment has also released its PathWorks redirector for Windows NT Workstation, which includes the
DECNet protocols. For more information, contact Digital Equipment directly.
NFS (Network File System) and Other UNIX Connectivity
In April, Intergraph announced the release of its NFS connectivity services for both client and server functionality.
This Windows NT version of the PC-NFS product was co-developed with SunSoft. For information on this product,
call Intergraph at 205-730-6112. There are other NFS products, such as those from Beame & Whiteside and
NetManage (408-973-7171), which have been available from vendors for months.
Beyond the TCP/IP protocols already included with every copy of Windows NT and the NFS connectivity offered by
Intergraph, another common UNIX networking standard is X-Windows. At this time, at least five vendors have
released their X-server products including DEC, AGE Logic, Hummingbird, Intergraph, and Visionware.
Peer Networking Capabilities
Windows NT Workstation also supports an unlimited number of outbound connections to servers on the network.
When used in a peer networking environment, it also supports up to 10 peer-to-peer inbound network server
connections. This is because Windows NT Workstation is tuned to offer higher performance for workstation-class
applications. If a server is needed to support many users, Windows NT Server is tuned to provide great server
performance.
Reliability and Security
Automatic Reboot
Automatic reboot lets you specify how Windows NT Workstation should react if and when a fatal system event
occurs. By default, the system automatically writes the details of this event to the system log, alerts administrators,
dumps system memory into a file that can be used for debugging, and then automatically reboots the system.
Automatically restarting the system helps guarantee greater reliability and uptime for systems that are on networks.
This advanced feature is found in some UNIX operating systems, and was requested by many customers.