Can't see DOS client from Win2000

[Guest]

Gentle people,

Being on wits end I turn to you. In my network of Win2000 Prof PCs (SP4+)
is one DOS machine which connects quite happily to the shared resources of
the Win2000 PCs. But trying the same thing the other way around does not
work. The Win2000 machines doesn't see nor are able to connet to the DOS
machine. Ping cmd works from Win2000, but that's just about it. Computername
of DOS client is unknown to the Win2000 machines even when DOS client is
working with their resources.

I'd be grateful for some pointers in the right direction!

E.G.Gru

 

[Phillip Windell]

Gentle people,

Being on wits end I turn to you. In my network of Win2000 Prof PCs (SP4+)
is one DOS machine which connects quite happily to the shared resources of
the Win2000 PCs.

The DOS client doesn't have sharing ability to my knowledge,...at least I
have never seen it done. It is just "one-way".

There may be other add-ins that might be loaded in the Config.sys or
Autoexec.bat to provide sharing, but I am only guessing. I have not ever
worried about devoting a lot of brain-time to the workings of the old DOS
client, I'm afraid ;-)

The actual full DOS Client takes up at least 3 floppy disks, but normal
functionality only requires a few files on one disk.

 

[Guest]

Gentle people,

Being on wits end I turn to you. In my network of Win2000 Prof PCs (SP4+)
is one DOS machine which connects quite happily to the shared resources of
the Win2000 PCs.

The DOS client doesn't have sharing ability to my knowledge,...at least I
have never seen it done. It is just "one-way".

There may be other add-ins that might be loaded in the Config.sys or
Autoexec.bat to provide sharing, but I am only guessing. I have not ever
worried about devoting a lot of brain-time to the workings of the old DOS
client, I'm afraid ;-)

The actual full DOS Client takes up at least 3 floppy disks, but normal
functionality only requires a few files on one disk.

--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


Gentle people,

Some progress has been made - found MS-DOS Networking Server Addon
(WG1049.EXE) and installed it. Now it seems as if I have a clean network
installation on DOS client (i.e. can read and write to all Win2000 hosts and
can share own resources with other machines on the network). Now the Win2000
machines "see" the DOS client (but only if it starts after them), meaning it
is found in "network environment", but Win2000 still refuses to talk to the
DOS client. (msg "Can't access \\Dosclient - access not supported" or similar)

Any ideas?

I'd be very grateful!

E.G.Gru

 

[Guest]

Gentle people,

Being on wits end I turn to you. In my network of Win2000 Prof PCs (SP4+)
is one DOS machine which connects quite happily to the shared resources of
the Win2000 PCs.

The DOS client doesn't have sharing ability to my knowledge,...at least I
have never seen it done. It is just "one-way".

There may be other add-ins that might be loaded in the Config.sys or
Autoexec.bat to provide sharing, but I am only guessing. I have not ever
worried about devoting a lot of brain-time to the workings of the old DOS
client, I'm afraid ;-)

The actual full DOS Client takes up at least 3 floppy disks, but normal
functionality only requires a few files on one disk.

--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


Gentle people,

Some progress has been made - found MS-DOS Networking Server Addon
(WG1049.EXE) and installed it. Now it seems as if I have a clean network
installation on DOS client (i.e. can read and write to all Win2000 hosts and
can share own resources with other machines on the network). Now the Win2000
machines "see" the DOS client (but only if it starts after them), meaning it
is found in "network environment", but Win2000 still refuses to talk to the
DOS client. (msg "Can't access \\Dosclient - access not supported" or similar)

Any ideas?

I'd be very grateful!

E.G.Gru

Gentle people,

It's done! Just found the solution!

One has to use "NET USE command" at Win2000 side for shared resources on DOS
client and everything works just fine!

Kind regards,

E.G.Gru

 

[Phillip Windell]

Very good, Sir!