Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 09:49:06 +1200 From: physmsa AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz (Mr M S Aitchison) Subject: Re: Linux and OpenDOS To: opendos-support AT delorie DOT com Message-id: <199706042149.JAA11867@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> Precedence: bulk I have connected an OpenDOS PC to a Linux server in two ways: 1. Using nfs to export filesystems on the Linux side (the "normal" Unix way), you can get shareware nfs clients for DOS (as well as commercial ones); I used xfs for the test (not bad software, but you have to be extremely cautious about loading it high; also it uses packet drivers, so you'll need ODIPKT as well). 2. Using IPX, there is free software (mars_nwe) that will let it act as a netware server. Modern Redhat distributions include it (but don't set it up terribly well; Caldera's is a better distribution for this). Personal Netware clients can use "normal" Netware 3 and 4 servers, but by default the commands like "NET SLIST" don't see them (use the /B option). So I've currently got the same partition exported to my PC in two ways from a Linux box. Going the other way around isn't so simple. You can get free "SOSS" software to make the OpenDOS computer act as an NFS server (but it takes over the machine; I haven't had much luck with TASKMGR running such software but there is still hope there). You can also get software to make the PC export its printer to a Netware server and from there to clients of that server. But (as far as I know), directories exported by Personal Netware or Netware Lite cannot be mounted on anything but Personal Netware clients, so you'd have to run PNW on the Linux box under DOSEMU if you want to access such drives (and there is probably some way to make such drives available to general Linux applications, in the same way that drives available under disk compression schemes within a dosemu environment can be made available as a unix filesystem). There is also theoretically the possibility of running a Personal Netware server in a dosemu environment under Linux, but I haven't been able to get this working properly (I haven't tried for a while - newer kernels and dosemu improvements might have fixed it). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Aitchison, Physics & Astronomy \_ Phone : +64 3 3642-947 a.h. 3371-225 University of Canterbury, (/' Callsign: ZL3TQE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------