On Sun, 27 Feb 2022 at 19:54, Sean Warner <[email protected]> wrote: > > I installed FreeDOS 1.2 today in Virtualbox on Win 10.
Why the out-of-date version? 1.3 is out now. It's usually a good plan to use the latest version. > I am trying to mount a Samba Share that is on another machine in my LAN as a > network drive in FreeDOS using commands like net share and net use. That is going to be very complicated. Why do you want to do it from DOS? For instance, could you install Win98 in your VM, use its built-in networking to get the files you want, and then just boot the VM into DOS mode? > > I am following several guides I googled including this one from > wiki.samba.org: > > https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Configuring_FreeDOS_to_Access_a_Samba_Share > > > > And also from this guide at virtualbox.org > > https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Sharing_files_with_DOS > > > > I’m not able to follow those instructions! I got the DSK3-1.EXE and > DSK3-2.EXE files and used an FTP server in FreeDOS to transfer them into the > FreeDOS OS but I don’t have any file called setup.exe ?? Have you unpacked the archives as the how-to guide says? Then changed into the relevant subdirectory to find the setup program? > Do I need to install the NIC driver Yes. > and MS Client 3.0 Yes. > in order to get the net use command to work? Of course. Otherwise it's not there to use. > Because when I type net use in FreeDOS I get the error: Bad command or file > name – “net”. I guess that program is not installed in my FreeDOS. Am I > supposed to have a C:\NET directory? Because I don’t have one. I’m not why? I > did a full install of FreeDOS. But you haven't installed the client yet. It's not there to work yet. > Any help much appreciated! It sounds to me like you are way out of your depth, technically speaking. Start with the basics: why are you doing this? What do you hope to achieve? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: [email protected] ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: [email protected] Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
