Okay, thank you. The problem is that my friend is 350km away and we cannot make LAN party. There are some articles and even some Raspberry Pi project on Github for this. And it is also COVID safe solution for LAN party :-)
I had some success with Retrozilla on W98SE. Even some VNCViewer solution with remote download would be nice. The jumping around and switching machines when you forget some patch or driver is not convenient. Although I just acquired ZIP250 drives for that purpose (five of them, one with USB for modern PC) as Ethernet RJ45 is not always possible when fixing some issue. Samba in Freedos is already working for me together with Windows 10 (MSCLIENT). Of course the security is lesser. I have nice solution with Asus RT AC87 router, where you can connect USB driver and create SMB share out of it. It works as fast workaround. Of course FTP or SFTP would be much better for some cases. Advantage of SMB is you can run app directly from netdrive or mount image over the network, which is not possible with FTP. I installed DosLFN tools and it complains about default FreeDOS codepage, so I need to change that. I will try dir /lfn. It would be nice to have some DOS Navigator / Commander with LFN support built in. Visual representation is always easier for me than remembering the tree structure on every machine. These were just my ideas for some articles in the future. On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 4:58 PM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > Hi Lukas, > > > I guess there is no good web browser that would actually work (only Lynx > > and similar). So it is impossible to download some driver for example. > Even > > Win98SE with 2000 NT kernel is not useable. Some port of Linux GUI... > > There are Arachne, Dillo, Links, Lynx and others, but they all > do not support the newest generation of HTTPS security and they > all do not support much JavaScript. Both are very widespread in > the modern world wide web, alas. One very fresh Links binary is > > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/net/links/2.23/ > > A while ago, I have tried a few "lightweight" browsers in Linux: > Otter Browser, Falkon and those mentioned already for DOS, with > the exception of Arachne. Because I was upset about Chrome and > Firefox burning gigabytes of RAM. Unfortunately, none of the > more lightweight browsers was able to display anywhere near > "most" of the websites I would have liked to visit with it. > > I think Firefox for DOS would not be the right answer either. > > > Some article about bridging old IPX/SPX DOS apps over TCP/IP would be > nice. > > I am sure that there are articles about that already, I hope > somebody else answers. But why bridging? For LAN game parties > which are proxied around the world instead of getting to meet > for them in person? :-) > > > Some real example of LFN (LDIR commands) would be nice. > > How about DIR /LFN for that? Already implemented ;-) > > > On default installation it does not like the codepage > > (I guess it is 852 or 850). > > You need to be more specific about that. > > > Cherry on top would be example with LFN and Samba. > > Note that MSCLIENT does not support modern Windows networks > and you will have a hard time to configure your server to > be old and insecure enough to use it from DOS at all. We do > have a SMBCLIENT for DOS, though, probably with LFN support? > > It works a bit like an FTP client, so you can use commands > to copy files. It does not "mount" the drive directly, so > you cannot just give it a drive letter. But again, MSCLIENT > is very outdated, so SMBCLIENT is probably still an idea. > > Note that we do have VMSMOUNT which "mounts" VMWare drives > using the guest/host interface provided for that by VMWare. > > Cheers, Eric > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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