Mail Archives: opendos/2000/11/02/10:41:46
Assuming you mean the Novell client accessing the NT LAN, no, unless
you've purchased "NT Gateway Services for Netware" and they've installed
it on their NT server (which btw allows access to both netware and NT
resources from either a netware or nt only client).
You could use MS Lan Manager for DOS (I'm not even so sure it's still
availible) which allows access to the NT side of stuff (only).
There is as far as I know, no known way under DOS to access two services
which use the same basic protocol, unless you use two network cards, and
after all that was said and done with the like 2k of free conventional
memory you'd be left with..shall we say why bother.
Why your "IT" people would ever even have bothered to try is a good
question for your HR people. Thats not "next to nothing about DOS" thats
"next to nothing about networks and servers."
I can think of several schemes to make it work, most of which would be
unstable (as in less stable than the NT server to begin with).
The top suggestions in a nutshell? (in order of probable stability)
1) Find a copy of Lan Manager for DOS, and accept that it kinda sucks, and
that depending on the NT server's setup, it may not run at all (MS, as we
all know, doesn't support DOS). Hopefully your NT people are well versed
in the earlier versions of the LAN Manager protocols (especially encrypted
password exchange)
2) Install Gateway Services on the NT server (caution though that this is
really intended to give NT clients access to Netware resources, not the
other way around).
3) Install Linux, do your DOS stuff in a DOSEMU session (works suprisingly
well btw...hey runs Wordperfect and Doom) then you can access whatever the
linux OS can see (which is pretty much about everything). Works best when
you have a second network card for DOS, as well as a seperate HD (doesn't
need to be big though, just something DOS thinks it owns).
4) Find an extra machine, install Caldera Open(fill in one of their linux
dists) get the 3 license version of their Netware 4 compatible server and
using SMB, mount the NT shares and then reexport them with the Netware
server.
5) Sneak in late at night and and reinstall Netware on all the servers.
Sho
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Da Silva, Joe wrote:
> As a mere network user, there's much I don't understand about these
> networks. So perhaps you (or someone else on the list) could tell me
> if it's possible to use the Novell Client32 for DOS stuff on a Windoze
> NT LAN (TCP/IP)?
>
> You see, a few months ago, the Microserfs in charge decided to scrap
> our little Novell 4 network and integrate it and a couple of other little
> networks (of various flavours) into a larger NT network. The IT people
> (who know next to nothing about DOS stuff), tried at the time to get
> the Client32 stuff to work with the NT LAN, but were unable ... :-(
>
> Regards,
> Joe.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sho NAKAGAMA [SMTP:nakagama AT email DOT njin DOT net]
> > Sent: Thursday, 2 November 2000 3:30
> > To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> > Subject: Re: Information on networking with drdos
> >
> >
> > Actually you can just download the last dos/win client (2.71 I
> > believe) and it comes with tcpip.exe , iptunnel.exe and what not. You
> > probably need to use nwip.exe but it's apt to be very slow starting up
> > during its search for a DSS server (I suppose you could just set the DSS
> > server to 127.0.0.1 so it times out quicker)
> >
> ---- snip ----
>
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