Re: Am I missing something? Can an AS/400 act as a network server right now?

SMTP and POP3 are there.
Carl Galgano
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Larkin <blarkin@wt.net>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Sunday, November 14, 1999 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: Am I missing something? Can an AS/400 act as a network server
right now?


>Booth,
>I am not sure of releases, but I think V4R2 gets you most of the way there.
V4R3
>I am doing file serving using NetServer, which I believe is in the OS/400
base. I
>have to start the server with a documented call to an API, but in V4R4
OpsNav can
>be used. we use Telnet, just have to start the telnet server. I use it from
NT
>workstations, because the users do not have emulation, sine they are CS
>applications. FTP, same thing. I use it to move data between AS/400s and
PCs oth.
>Need to remember the gotchas on ASCII vs EBCIDIC when going to PCs, and
noving
>save files via PCs requires using a TYPE of Binary. HTTP - I haven't got a
change
>to use it on the 400, but it is there.
>
>e-mail is handled by Notes, but there is SMTP support built in also. I
think it
>is in the base.
>
>Bob
>
>boothm@earth.goddard.edu wrote:
>
>> If one puts a ethernet card in an AS/400 is that all that's needed to
have
>> full blown networking services?  e-mail, http, ftp, telnet, etc?   Even
>> file sharing?
>>
>> _______________________
>> Booth Martin
>> boothm@earth.goddard.edu
>> http://www.spy.net/~booth
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