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From: "Cox, Stuart SRM:EX" <Stuart DOT Cox AT gems1 DOT gov DOT bc DOT ca>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: LFN API stuff via M$ Client?
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 08:59:59 -0700
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Joe,

I've an 8 node Lantastic network that is slowly aging.  I went that route
because of a contractor's recommendation of Lantastic rather than Microsoft,
and his recommendation has worked well for me for the past decade or so.

This whole thing (the network) works well and I'd like to not "fix" it so
that it no longer works.  You know how computer tinkering can be.

Still, I'd like to add an older machine or two to the network and go the SMB
route.  What .EXEs, .BATs, config and autoexec settings, drivers and all
that stuff do I need to put these two machines onto the network so that the
newest Windows only boxes will be able to see them?  I've QEMM and know how
to allocate upper memory stuff and that sort of thing.

Can you give me the quick and dirty rundown, please?

Stu Cox

-----Original Message-----
From: da Silva, Joe [mailto:Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 2:10 AM
To: 'opendos'
Subject: LFN API stuff via M$ Client?


OK, I've tried to find this information via the Web and Ralf Brown's
interrupt list, but no luck so far (perhaps because I don't understand
what I'm looking at ;-). Perhaps someone here can "point me in the
right direction" ... ?

I was wondering if there was any sort of API provided by the M$ Client
for DOS redirector (or whatever), that would allow a DOS application
to access LFN information from an NT (SMB) network drive?

We have a number of DR-DOS machines connected via an SMB network
to a bunch of NT/W2K file servers. They have the usual M$ NDIS drivers,
TCP/IP stack and M$ Client for DOS software, which is usually run in
"basic" mode to conserve conventional memory, but is sometimes run in
"full" mode, for access to the Exchange e-mail server.

I have read on the Web that WFW 3.11 (which we don't have or use, BTW)
was able to display LFN information for NT (SMB) network drives, which
suggests such capability might be possible under DOS too, although I
haven't been able to confirm this or figure out how.

If it's possible, I want to be able to write an application to do a
directory
listing of a network drive, displaying long file names. If that works,
perhaps
later such network capability could then be added to the DOSLFN TSR,
so that DR-DOS 7.03 could provide similar LFN capabilities for network
drives as does the Windoze32 DOS Box ...

Joe.