Mail Archives: opendos/2001/05/07/20:14:01
Could it possibly be a FAT32 problem, where WIN9x in FAT32 is not
readable with a dos machine? You could try using a good third party
program like Partition Magic, or several others out there, and convert
your WIN9x machines to Fat, then try again.
BOB 'DOMAN' MOSS
On Mon, 7 May 2001 17:37:15 +1000 "da Silva, Joe"
<Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com> writes:
> OK ... so you don't need a peer-peer arrangement between
> your Windoze machine(s) and your DOS machine(s), just a
> client-server arrangement ...
>
> To recap, you can connect your DOS machine to a Windoze
> NT server, but not to a Windoze 95/98 server? Hmmm ... the
> M$ Client "readme.txt" file says it can connect to a WFW or
> Windoze NT server. However, this stuff has not been changed
> since 1995 (AFAIK), so I think the reason Windoze 9X is not
> mentioned is simply because this M$ Client stuff precedes it.
>
> If you can (1) connect your DOS machine to an NT server and
> (2) connect a Windoze machine to a 9X server, then you should
> also be able to connect your DOS machine to a 9X server. I'm
> no expert on this SMB stuff, but I can't see any reason why not.
> Perhaps the problem is the Windoze 9X machine setup?
>
> Joe.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pepino Voorhoeve [SMTP:P DOT Voorhoeve AT net DOT HCC DOT nl]
> > Sent: Friday, 4 May 2001 20:45
> > To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> > Subject: RE: networking with dos
> >
> > On Tue, 1 May 2001 18:12:25 +1000, da Silva, Joe wrote:
> >
> > >Oh ... I see! (Why didn't you say this before?)
> > >
> > I thought I did.
> > I certainly did try it.
> >
> > >Well, I have never used this stuff peer-to-peer, but if you mean
> sharing
> > >resources that reside on DOS machines, then I'm sure that is
> possible
> > >(although I don't do that, myself).
> >
> > No, not necessairly, but I want to use the stuff on the
> Windwos-machine
> >
> > >
> > >When you start the network services, you have two possible modes
> :
> > >1. Basic services. In this mode you can access drives and
> printers
> > > from other machines on the network. That's about all.
> >
> > Yes, but I can't get a connection with the Windows machine, even
> > everything seems to working allright.
> >
> >
> > >2. Full services. In this mode, you can do the above, plus access
> > > your M$-Exchange mail server (using M$-Exchange for DOS) and,
> > > IIRC, you can also share your machine's resources with the
> rest
> > > of the network.
> >
> > Using MSexchange would be a nice experiment, that is for later,
> because I
> > only use it at my work.
> >
> > Thanks so far.
> >
> > I will still looking and trying.
> >
> > Pepino
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