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From: "da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: networking with dos
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 17:37:15 +1000 
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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