Hi, I have an old msdos application that i need to run in dosemu. I had a Novell server, and the dos clients loaded all the normal stuff to access the novell server and run the application (LSL, IPXODI, NETBIOS, etc). Now I've replaced the Novell server with Linux + Samba, and the client machine are running the application in a dos shell under windows. No problem here. But I have one remote computer that needs to run the same application, and is connected to the linux server using a modem, and PPP. After the connection established, I telnet to the Linux, and run dosemu to run the application (I'm using lredir to map the drives tho the same directory as the other clients), and it *almost" runs ok. My problem is that the application is expecting to have netbios installed, and needs to get the the machine name, and other things to put itself in "multiuser" mode (to use locks on files). If the application doesn't find netbios it assumes it's running on signle user mode, and makes no locks on files, and with the other clients accessing the same files, corruption may occur. I've found the NOVELL-Howto in the dosemu docs, but it all refers to using IPX as the communication protocol. I think I don't need to use IPX. I just need to give netbios to the application. I've tried to install ms-client for dos on dosemu, but the ehternet drivers won't work. I'm not sure what means the $_novell_hack and $_vnet on the /etc/dosemu.conf file. I can't use the normal ethernet driver. How can I solve this? Do I need to IPX on the Linux? How can I put netbios to work on dosemu? Can I use ms-client to communicate with the samba server on the same machine (intead of using lredir)? Any help would be much appreciated. Thankx, -- Mario Moreira DID/CET Portugal Telecom +351 34 8913200
