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Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 14:49:21 -0600
From: Thomas A Webb <tawebb AT earthlink DOT net>
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Subject: Re: networking with dos
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SMB protcol support is what gets you connectivity between DOS, Win9x,
and NT (and that's what LanManager gives you). You should have the
four-disk series to Install it on your lap-top. Make sure you've defined
"shares" on your Win9x machine so that your Dos machine can get to them.
The shares should be set to "share - public between machines.


Pepino Voorhoeve wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 01 May 2001 13:33:44 -0600, Thomas A Webb wrote:
> 
> >I must be missing something.. We routinely use doslanmanager on dos and
> >drdos (it's a freebe) to do this. The only problem I'm aware of is
> >Microsoft's shuffling of password encryption between NT and Win9x and
> >the fact that you must use ndis ethercard drivers (also a freebe). Since
> >there appears to be a quest for a solution, could someone tell me the
> >problem??
> >
> My question was how to connect a dos-machine (my laptop) to a windows95 or windos98-machine.
> And I don't want to have a NT server in this case, because it is a home network.
> And I couldn't get it right at home.
> At my work, with NT server, it is working.
> But I till now, I understand I have to have a better look at ms-client, so I try this again.
> 
> Pepino Voorhoeve

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