Am 15.06.2012 um 23:26 schrieb Marcos Favero Florence de Barros: > It did work, but it turned out to be very fragile. > As soon as the two people use the database more intensively, the > system crashes -- in most cases, both server and client. If on > the other hand they do things slowly, it works just fine. > > The hardware is mostly early Pentiums donated to us. The network > software is MS-Client.
Server Side: As I understand it, you use a FreeDOS machine with MS Client as server. To have server functions, you updated MS Client with WG1049.EXE (which is not legal but also not officially forbidden, see: http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/samba/dos.html#msclient ). Client Side: FreeDOS with MS Client as client. It's been a few years since I played a lot with FreeDOS and MS Client as server and as far as I remember it was never working great for me. "Fragile" is the word I have in mind too when I remember MS Client as server. I have read that MS Client with MS DOS works OK for you. But if you want to stick with Free Software, why not use a real Samba server together with the FreeDOS/MS Client clients? A Pentium 1 should be enough for that. Download for instance Debian Stable from here: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.5/i386/iso-cd/debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.iso and when it comes to step "Software selection" choose "File server". This will install Samba. Don't install a desktop environment. The following configuration file for Samba (/etc/smb.conf) works fine with MS Client on FreeDOS: #======================= Global Settings ======================= [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = %h (Samba %v) wins support = yes os level = 65 domain master = yes local master = yes preferred master = yes name resolve order = hosts lmhosts host wins bcast dns proxy = no lm announce = true lanman auth = yes #======================= Authentication ======================== security = share encrypt passwords = true invalid users = root unix password sync = false passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . max log size = 100 #======================= Misc ================================ socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=4096 SO_RCVBUF=4096 ; Name mangling options for DOS clients case sensitive = no default case = upper preserve case = no short preserve case = no mangle case = yes mangled names= yes mangling method = hash mangle prefix = 6 ; charsets ; unix charset = UTF-8 unix charset = ISO8859-15 dos charset = 850 #======================= Shares ============================== [share] comment = Samba Share writeable = true path = /home/USERNAME browseable = yes #=========================================================== Please exchange the name of the WORKGROUP with the name you want to use. Please exchange USERNAME with the name of the user you configured in Debian. After you configured the above smb.conf, you have to update his password again with the command sudo smbpasswd -a username. This update is necessary to make lanman auth work. For more info see: http://www.heise.de/ct/hotline/Samba-DOS-Client-zickt-1172774.html On the clients, please edit the line in MS Client's SYSTEM.INI workgroup=WORKGROUP to have the same workgroup name as in smb.conf. I use the full redirector, so in SYSTEM.INI the line is preferredredir=full Also on the clients, please edit the line in MS Client's SYSTEM.INI username=USERNAME to point to the user configured in Debian and Samba. Now reboot the DOS machine with the new user configured. If you start MS Client f.i. by typing "net view", it will automatically ask you for your password and store it in the users password list file (*.pwl). You can now connect the FreeDOS machine to your Samba server by typing net use I: \\NAMEOFSERVER\SHARE and have the Samba share mapped to drive I: on the client. I just tested it and it works for me. regards Ulrich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
