- You cannot run IPX/SPX under Windows 7 natively. What you can do however is install Virtual PC with XP mode. The support for IPX/SPX on Windows 7 (64 bit).
- Feb 19, 2011 I am focusing on two in particular in this thread - both of them install at the same time: NWLink NetBIOS NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Compatible Transport Protocol I have heard it mentioned that with the advent of the Vista OS MS did away with this protocol package, and that this continued in the Windows 7 OS.
- Mar 9, 2013 - It is not natively supported by Windows Vista (32 bit). Here below, you will learn how to manually install this driver under Windows.
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From where I can download IPX for windows 7 and how to install it?Thanks alot for your help.
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You can try this IPX over UDP software.
Let us know how it turns out.
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Microsoft's official answer is to ask Novell as it is a Novell protocol. Novell's official answer is that it is a Microsoft operating system, ask Microsoft. (Recent versions of Novell Client do not support IPX)
Install Ipx Protocol Windows 7 64 Bit
For gaming ipx wrapper appears to be the best bet, but is not compatible with ipx at the wire level. There are advantages as this allows you to play with people on other networks without doing ipx routing. The disadvantages are that if you have some computers that talk ipx, you still need the wrapper, and it is not available for os/2, netware or linux (or anything else besides windows, although source code is available).
For use with industrial equipment like cnc setups there are no good answers. Less bad ones are things like virtual machines, ftp servers and ask the vendor (which is occasionally useful).
You may be able to get xp's drivers to work on newer operating systems, but getting it to work with 64bit operating systems does not appear to work and 32bit operating systems are difficult at best.
You are in about the same boat for netbeui, but there is some support for dlc from microsoft but they use ip and a gateway.
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Found this which may work, basically hack IPX into Windows 7 using XP's IPX drivers.
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I have a Windows XP 32 bit system, which I used to connect to my Novell Netware 3.1x server, which is a database server.
Now I am planning to migrate from Windows XP to Windows Server 2008 R2 (64 bit), but the issue is that Windows Server 2008 R2 doesn't support the IPXSPX protocol.
Is there any workaround to make IPX protocol work in Windows Server 2008 R2?
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The workaround would be to configure the Netware server for TCP/IP and drop IPX/SPX. It's 2013! This will probably involve an upgrade, but that Netware 3.1 server is twenty years old now.
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Sure. From this link:
Being 32 bit drivers, I'm not sure what problems you'll run into on a natively 64 bit OS, but this is a workaround, so I guess issues are not unexpected.
(Having posted that, you really should do like Mark suggested and let obsolete technology rest in peace.)
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