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Connection with a DOS-systtem
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(for "can the DOS system
be a server ?" see the bottom of this page) |
Yes, you can with some limits.
Microsoft offers for download a "DOS Client for
Workgroup Networks" called
MSWGCN.EXE, which can downloaded from
Microsoft :
Status Jan.5,2001: some info is available in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base Q108391,
which has also the download link : ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/mswgcn.exe :

Connection from a
DOS-system to Windows95 or an NT4 Workstation
This DOS network client allows to connect
to a workgroup-network, it uses only NetBEUI-protocol.
For connection to an NT-Domain server or for
networking using IPX/SPX or TCP/IP protocol, use the Microsoft
Network-Client 3.0:
Connection from a
DOS-system to an NT4 Server either from
harddisk or from a
DOS-Network
Boot-disk (based on the Network Client 3.0 or from a
Windows Bootdisk
with Network support, created from
Windows95/98..
(For connection to a NT-Domain server,
you MUST use this Microsoft Network Client 3.0)
- Connection from a DOS-system using TCP/IP
- Update Network
Client 3.0 with new Drivers
DOS-system as a Server on a
Microsoft network
To share the disk and/or the printer of a DOS-system for access
from a Windows system, you need to install first the Microsoft Network
Client 3.0 and then
download/install the add-on for DOS-based Microsoft Network Server.
A warning: these Microsoft DOS-network drivers
are BIG, they take 100 Kbytes of the DOS-memory, so you may need
to use UMB (via EMM386.EXE and DOS=HIGH,UMB) and load as much as
possible drivers into the UMB.
If it is still too much, then I know only one other option: use
on both the DOS and Windows95 system as Network-software "Lantastic" from Artisoft ( http://www.artisoft.com ),
where the DOS-client is much smaller and Lantastic even offers
the possibility to install a DOS-server-module, allowing
Windows95 systems to access the disk of the DOS-system. But
Lantastic is NOT FREE, you need to purchase it! (Artisoft offers
the trial download of Lantastic 7, which is the Win95 version,
but NO a trial version of Lantastic 6, which is the DOS version)
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