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From:	"Ben A L Jemmett" <ben DOT jemmett AT ukonline DOT co DOT uk>
To:	<opendos AT delorie DOT com>
References:	<200010302250 DOT a51667 AT su DOT maus DOT de>
Subject:	Re: Information on networking with drdos
Date:	Tue, 31 Oct 2000 17:39:21 -0000
Organization:	Jemmett Glover Software Development
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> I'd like to use DRDOS and its personal netware to give a linux box access
> to my DOS box using smbfs, ie. the DOS box should be configured as a file
> server.
I'm afraid that can't be done.  Personal NetWare uses its own network
protocols (IPX as the transport, with basically the NetWare 2 NCPs and a few
others as the actual transfer protocol - SMB on the other hand usually runs
over TCP/IP or whichever of NetBEUI/NetBIOS I mean).

You could try installing PNW as a server on the DOS machine and see if the
various NetWare tools for Linux will access it, but I doubt they'll work due
to a number of differences between PNW and NetWare itself.  There are, I
believe, some SMB servers for DOS though - try looking for Microsoft or
IBM's server.  http://www.samba.org/ ought to be a good place to start.

Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)

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