DOS & AD

[Guest]

Hi, I'm new to AD, my company is in the planning stages of setting it up. We
have 3 computers on our network that are still DOS-based, and cannot change.
(Industrial machines that draw from libraries on our network). We are told,
when we switch to AD, everyone needs a password, and the powers that be want
to make sure that these machines will still be able to access the libraries
on an Active Directory. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Matt

 

[Herb Martin]

Hi, I'm new to AD, my company is in the planning stages of setting it up. We
have 3 computers on our network that are still DOS-based, and cannot change.
(Industrial machines that draw from libraries on our network). We are told,
when we switch to AD, everyone needs a password, and the powers that be want
to make sure that these machines will still be able to access the libraries
on an Active Directory. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Matt

Someone else may give you more specifics (experience
or KB articles) but based on my experience and NOT
having tried this:

AD is not really the issue -- you already have issues
with NT based servers and if those work then (mostly)
so will new servers.

Explicitly authentication for accessing file servers with
LAN Manager DOS network clients will generally work
with one major caveat:

Win2003 Servers default to SMB signing of such packets
between client and server and I doubt that DOS_LAN-Man
can support that.

 

[Jimmy Andersson [MVP]]

Hmmm.... an idea would be to run DOS in a VPC (haven't tried it though). I
guess that the DOS machines don't (today) need a password to access the
relevant info, or do they?

Regards,
/Jimmy

 

[Guest]

The machines logon as "dos62" with no password. So, they just use the guest
account to get on the servers...for now.