Thread: Dos Networking???

Not many people know how to do this, or have access to the software.

Microsoft networking can be set up for dos and windows of all versions.

If you have access to a NT server, there is a utility in the admin tools to create a network boot disk. You select your card, and protocol, and it creates a disk with all the software needed.

Problem is, it's an old utility, hasn't been updated to new cards in a long time, and doesn't always work without you getting into the protocol.ini under the net directory and hacking it a little, and you may have to patch in drivers downloaded from your NIC
maker.

the protocol.ini is fairly straightforward, username= , network=, protocol=...

Talk to someone in your area who's been doing NT server support for more than a few years and you can probably get your hands on
a disk.


Troy

The best DOS networking software I've seen is Fastlynx 2.0.
It has split screen file transfers (host on left, client on right side) which makes it very easy to transfer between computers. It supports IPX, Serial, and Parallel transfers. Very nice piece of software.

For more info look at https://www.sewelld.com/


Scott

Thanks Scott I'll check that out.

I use Win95a but boot into DOS mode to play MP3's. I can then exit from playing and run Win.exe to run windows to gain network access. (win95a is win95 without IE and consumes only 30Mb)

Graham

I am using a lap-link network connection in DOS with the parallel port.

I can't remember where I downloaded it, but if you search for DOS, FREEWARE/SHAREWARE and DOWNLOADS then you should find several sites that match.

bluescreen4u: I set up some microsoft networking software (not exactly the one that comes with NT but similar) I can access other computers from the mp3 box using the "net use" command, but have not figured out how to share the drive so I can push mp3's down to it. If you know of a way to share a DOS drive, please let me know.

www.caldera.com provides the free "Caldera Open DOS" which has many useful features :
- DOS networking (based on Novell Network)
- smaller memory managers
- smaller mscdex.exe
etc !!!

I checked their site and could not find OpenDos. I found DR Dos and downloaded it as it says it supports networking as well. I'll let you know how it works.

Where did you find it? (URL plz) I spent a whole lunch hour going around in circles and when I finally thought I'd found it the link was dated 97 and dead...

Duh!