Hi Darrin, "As far as I know/recall, you can not have multiple DOS instances with read-write on the same shared linux folder."
I am hoping to use your type of set up and have several... maybe 3 freedos, or possibly 3 x Win 7 or Win XP clients (running in a VM) connect to the same samba share at the same time on the Linux os. The dos application won't let the clients update the same data simultaneously but they should be able to read and write to that share simultaneously. Are you saying this won't be possible if I use a Linux os to host the samba share? Can you explain a bit more that "period correct" solution you mentioned? Thank you, Sean On Thu 3 Mar 2022, 13:27 Darrin M. Gorski, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > That sounds unnecessarily complex > > Or interesting, I guess it depends on your perspective. > > > You could run the DOS apps in a number of DOSEMU2 windows which can use > Linux directories as drives. > > I did run this under DOSEMU on x86 Linux in the past, but I much prefer > QEMU over DOSEMU - for a number of reasons. QEMU can run any guest OS, > DOSEMU only runs DOS. QEMU can run on many host architectures and OSes, > DOSEMU can only run on x86 Linux. > > But the original question was about DOS and Samba, I just happen to use > QEMU to run DOS, so I thought I'd mention it. > > > which can use Linux directories as drives. > > As far as I know/recall, you can not have multiple DOS instances with > read-write on the same shared linux folder. This is a problem for a > multi-node BBS where all nodes need to be able to write to the filesystem. > Using MSCLIENT with SHARE is a period-correct solution (many BBS systems > have direct built-in support for this). > > - Darrin > > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 4:53 PM Eric Auer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Hi! >> >> >> I have a pi running raspbian (debian 10) and samba 4.9 which serves >> files >> >> to a set of DOS QEMU VMs using the MSCLIENT 3.0 for DOS network stack. >> >> That sounds unnecessarily complex: You could run the DOS apps in a >> number of DOSEMU2 windows which can use Linux directories as drives. >> This would not require any Samba or any MSCLINT to be running :-) >> >> Not sure when DOSEMU2 will support Raspberry Pi, but for those who >> have PC compatible computers, it would be an easy method to run a >> number of DOS apps simultaneously. >> >> However, your answer is great for the general question how DOS can >> connect to Windows drives today! I think Linux and Samba make it a >> lot easier to disable security (only sane for restricted networks) >> sufficently to make DOS clients happy, compared to using Windows. >> >> Regards, Eric >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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