updated: Jan. 6, 2001 | |
The DOS-Client for Microsoft Networks |
(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)
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Connection from a DOS-system using TCP/IP
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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)