Grant: > On 4/22/21 9:25 AM, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > No IP doesn't prohibit ethernet. > > I agree technically. Though I suspect it /may/ be problematic with the > spirit behind / motivating the ban on IP.
In that case, your usb-connection (or anything) will probably be a borderline case to, since that is also a network... But I guess the thing fobidden is anything makeing the ms-win box recognize and use somthing to communicate outwards. > > You could possible use: > > raw ethernet frames > > Do you have any recommendations of utilities for each side? Don't know much about the windows side, but I found this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/766912/raw-ethernet-frames-using-winsock https://www.winpcap.org/ https://hacked10bits.blogspot.com/2011/12/sending-raw-ethernet-frames-in-6-easy.html seems to be some programming involved. > > netbeui > > samba > > I thought that Samba has *LONG* been NetBIOS over TCP/IP (a.k.a. NBT). > Is NetBEUI code /still/ in Samba? Seems it never was, though there were patches: https://flylib.com/books/en/3.151.1.29/1/ > > ethertalk (appletalk) > > http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/ > > ipx (netware) > > > > ftp://ftp.koansoftware.com/public/opensource/mars_nwe/mars_nwe-0.99.pl21.tgz > > I believe that IPX support has been removed from 4.<something> kernels. > Maybe 5.<something>. 4.18-rc1 it seems. > DECnet Phase III or Phase IV. Ah, forgot that one. > > I have previously (in the 90's) used mars, worked great. > > I've never run MARS but I've done more than a little with Novell > NetWare. I recently had a 4.14 kernel mount an NCPFS from a server. > (4.14 obviously still has IPX.) /// About the original question. Here what a few thing I dig up. https://www.amazon.com/Laplink-High-Speed-Transfer-Cable-PCmover/dp/B0093H83DW https://sourceforge.net/projects/lptransfer/ https://github.com/viveris/uMTP-Responder It is usually simple to setup and use a serial null-modem cable and run kermit or somthing on the MS-Win side and add a getty (I've used mgetty) handling the serial port on the linux side. Regards, /Karl Hammar
