How do you share a drive on a XP-Pro M/C to DOS please?

[John Perry]

At the moment I have been using a DOS boot disk with Ghost 8 to create
images of the partitions on my hard drive and copy them through my
network using Netbeui to a drive on a Win98SE machine on which I have
set up shared drives. All works fine and I have a good back-up
solution.

Now I want to use a new machine with WinXP Pro and I have installed
the Netbeui protocol, but I cannot get the XP-Pro machine visible on
the network even with no Firewall running on it.

Has anyone any idea how I can get the XP machine's drives visible to
DOS for writing to?

Thanks

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

At the moment I have been using a DOS boot disk with Ghost 8 to create
images of the partitions on my hard drive and copy them through my
network using Netbeui to a drive on a Win98SE machine on which I have
set up shared drives. All works fine and I have a good back-up
solution.

Now I want to use a new machine with WinXP Pro and I have installed
the Netbeui protocol, but I cannot get the XP-Pro machine visible on
the network even with no Firewall running on it.

Has anyone any idea how I can get the XP machine's drives visible to
DOS for writing to?

Thanks

I am a little confused about what you're trying to back up from
where to where. Let's assume that you have two machines
called Win98 and WinXP, and let's assume that when you're
working on Win98, you wish to access shares located on WinXP,
and vice versa.

Forget about NetBEUI. TCP/IP will do very nicely - why have
two different protocols in your network? Install TCP/IP on each
machine, select the same Workgroup name, and set the IP
addresses like so:
Win98: 192.168.0.10
WinXP: 192.168.0.12

Now try to ping Win98 from WinXP, and vice versa. Does it
work?

After you get this first state to work, we can move on to setting
up your shares.

 

[John Perry]

I am a little confused about what you're trying to back up from
where to where. Let's assume that you have two machines
called Win98 and WinXP, and let's assume that when you're
working on Win98, you wish to access shares located on WinXP,
and vice versa.

Sorry, I was not very clear. I have a laptop that I boot up with a
USB key that is a DOS boot disk and I use Norton ghost to back up the
image onto the Win98 machine using NetBeui via my LAN.

What I want to do is boot it with the same USB key and the DOS files
and save the images on the XP-Pro machine instead.

I can see the shares on the Won98 m/c with net view, but I cannot see
the shares on the XP-Pro machine. I figure I have not set up the
XP-Pro machine properly even though the Netbeui protocol is installed
on it.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Sorry, I was not very clear. I have a laptop that I boot up with a
USB key that is a DOS boot disk and I use Norton ghost to back up the
image onto the Win98 machine using NetBeui via my LAN.

What I want to do is boot it with the same USB key and the DOS files
and save the images on the XP-Pro machine instead.

I can see the shares on the Won98 m/c with net view, but I cannot see
the shares on the XP-Pro machine. I figure I have not set up the
XP-Pro machine properly even though the Netbeui protocol is installed
on it.

OK, this is much clearer.

Just for fun I pulled out one of my DOS network boot disks and
tried to connect to a share on my WinXP PC, using TCP/IP
rather than NetBEUI. WinXP claimed that my password was
incorrect, but then it said the same thing when I attempted to
connect to a non-existing share. This brings back a vague
recollection that WinXP shares are not accessible from a pure
DOS network boot (as opposed to Win9x). I recommend you
post your question in a dedicated networking newsgroup.

You could also try some network boot disks from www.bootdisk.com.

 

[John Perry]

OK, this is much clearer.

Just for fun I pulled out one of my DOS network boot disks and
tried to connect to a share on my WinXP PC, using TCP/IP
rather than NetBEUI. WinXP claimed that my password was
incorrect, but then it said the same thing when I attempted to
connect to a non-existing share. This brings back a vague
recollection that WinXP shares are not accessible from a pure
DOS network boot (as opposed to Win9x). I recommend you
post your question in a dedicated networking newsgroup.

You could also try some network boot disks from www.bootdisk.com.

Thanks, and I have cracked it. I had a corrupt installation of
NetBEUI; when I reinstalled it on WinXP, the share appeared and all
worked straight away. I found this by looking at Event Viewer, and
the system events.