Windows for Workgroups has SMB clients packaged in, but DOS does not. There ARE dos clients packaged with Windows NT Server, however. I'm no fan of windows, and I am not defending it, I just believe in giving correct information whenever possible.
-Jeremiah Johnson On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, bradleyb wrote: > I don't believe there is an SMB client for DOS or Win3x... There would be > if M$ had any respect for their customer base, but.... > If you have Windows for Workgroups available, I believe that can act as an > SMB client. > As for dos, I would suggest looking into NCP, i.e. the NetWare protocol. > You could make the linux box an NCP print server as well as an SMB print > server. I'm not sure where to get the NCP client for DOS, but I'm sure > they're around. > > -Brad > > > On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote: > > > Hi! > > First of all, thanks to all those who guided me into the depths of > > installing Linux into an archaic i386 with only 40 megs hard drive. This has > > been accomplished, and it is now acting as a printer server). > > > > My question is: it's easy enough to connect a win 95/8 machine to > > this server using samba, but I don't know what sort of software there might > > be to do the same from DOS and from Win3.11. We have some stuff running > > under these OS's and would like to take advantage of them. Is there such a > > client that anyone could point out to? (where to download it from, basically > > X-D) > > > > Thanks a lot, > > Jose > > -- > > Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student > > Radar & Communications Group > > Department of Electronic Engineering > > University of Sheffield UK > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
