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From: "Patrick Moran" <pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Information on networking with drdos
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:36:17 -0700
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Couldn't samba be used? I know you can connect PNW DoS system to a WINDOZE
server, but you cannot configure the PNW as a server with WINDOZE. Also you
can use TCP/IP with PNW. I believe you have to pay for it in binary version.
You may be able to do it buy installing WEBSPYDER and using it's TCP/IP. I
have not tried that.

You could use NetBIOS through a serail or parallel port to do it. I know it
can be done some way because several years ago, I was helpng a blind person
on FIDnet install Linux from his DOS machine as a terminal to his desktop
for Linux. He had a brail interface on the PC. Several of us on FIDOnet
helped him do it. I believe he used the PNW from DRDOS to do it. BTW PNW
will run on other makes of DOS. It is not just confined to DRDOS. Back when
Novell had DRDOS, PNW could be purchsed separately. Since you got it for
free when you purchased DRDOS and at the same price, most people did not buy
it that way. I had a freind that ran a BBS here locally that had Netware
Lite and he could upgrade Lite to PNW for 39.95 and that is what he did. The
advantage was that he got two rather large manuals for PNW. Those manuals
were not ncluded with PNW when you bought DOS.

Pat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <ben DOT jemmett AT ukonline DOT co DOT uk>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: Information on networking with drdos


> > 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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