To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 15:56:44 -0700
Subject: Re: networking with dos
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From: Robert W Moss <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

Could it possibly be a FAT32 problem, where WIN9x in FAT32 is not
readable with a dos machine?  You could try using a good third party
program like Partition Magic, or several others out there, and convert
your WIN9x machines to Fat, then try again.  

BOB 'DOMAN' MOSS 

On Mon, 7 May 2001 17:37:15 +1000 "da Silva, Joe"
<Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com> writes:
> 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

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