IBM
LAN Server started as a close cousin of Microsoft
LAN Manager and first shipped in early
1988. It was originally designed to run on top of Operating System/2 Extended Edition. The network client was called IBM LAN Requester and was included with
OS/2 EE 1.1 by default. (Eventually IBM shipped other clients and supported yet more. Examples include the IBM OS/2 File/Print Client, IBM OS/2 Peer, and client software for Windows.) Here the short term LAN Server refers to the
IBM OS/2 LAN Server product. There were also LAN Server products for other operating systems, notably
AIX (now called Fast Connect) and OS/400.
Version history
- 1.0 - 1988 - for OS/2 EE 1.0
- 1.2 - 1990 - for OS/2 EE 1.2
- 1.3 - 1991 - for OS/2 EE 1.3
- 2.0 - 1992 - related to LAN Manager 2.0
- 3.0 - 1993 - Entry / Advanced (no LAN Manager "cousin" from here on)
- 4.0 - 1994 - Entry / Advanced - new OO user interface
- 5.0 - 1996 - included in OS/2 Warp Server
- 5.1 - 1999 - included in OS/2 Warp Server for e-business
Predecessors included IBM PC LAN Program (PCLP). Variants included LAN Server Ultimedia (optimized for network delivery of
multimedia files) and Workplace On-Demand. Add-ons included Directory and Security Server, Print Services Facility/2 (later known as Advanced Printing), Novell
NetWare for OS/2, and LAN Server for
Macintosh.
Innovations
LAN Server pioneered certain file/print sharing concepts such as domains (and domain controllers), networked COM ports, domain aliases, and automatic printer driver selection and installation.
See also
The LAN Manager (not to be confused with NTLM) was an advanced Network Operating System (NOS) from Microsoft developed in cooperation with 3Com. It was designed to succeed 3Com's innovative 3+Share network server software which ran on top of MS-DOS.
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OS/2 is a computer operating system, initially created by Microsoft and IBM, then later developed by IBM exclusively. The name stands for "Operating System/2," because it was introduced as the preferred operating system for IBM's "Personal System/2 (PS/2)" line of
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AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) is the name given to a series of proprietary operating systems sold by IBM for several of its computer system platforms, based on UNIX System V while containing BSD extensions ("r" commands such as rlogin, rcp, rexec, etc.).
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Multimedia (Lat. Multum + Medium) is media that uses multiple forms of information content and information processing (e.g. text, audio, graphics, animation, video, interactivity) to inform or entertain the (user) audience.
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NetWare is a network operating system developed by Novell, Inc. It initially used cooperative multitasking to run various services on a PC, and the network protocols were based on the archetypal Xerox XNS stack.
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Macintosh, commonly known as Mac, is a brand name which covers several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. Named after the McIntosh variety of apple, the original Macintosh was released on January 24, 1984.
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Server Message Block (SMB) is an application-level network protocol mainly applied to shared access to files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network. It also provides an authenticated Inter-process communication mechanism.
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