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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 23:40:40 -0400
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
From: Andrew Jardine <ajardine AT nbnet DOT nb DOT ca>
Subject: running a program on over a Personal Netware Network
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This may be a 2+2=? question for many of you, but I'm just happy I managed
to get my two computers to talk, and now I'm trying to do something useful
with them.

Both computers are running Opendos and Personal Netware, only the two are
hooked up together, one has shared resourses - the server - one doesn't -
the client.  I'd like to run a dos program on the client that resides on
the server (client has only a 20 Meg HD), and I managed to do so by mapping
drive C on the client to drive C on the server, so when the program runs it
just uses the hard drive on the server as if it lived in the client (I think).

Now the problem is that the dos program needs to read files from the CD-ROM
on the server (the client doesn't have one), which Personal Netware tells
me in a little popup window, can't be mapped to because it is a CD-ROM
drive.  Is there any way around this?

Thanks!

P.S. Great little piece of work that Personal Netware!  No need to resort
to ugly expensive solutions like Windows 95 on both computers and muscle
bound computers just to run useful apps.  Networking for the masses!  What
a concept.

Andrew