If you have a copy of MS-DOS, you could try using that instead of
DR-DOS and see whether it makes any difference.
> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 17:07:50 -0400
> From: William O Richmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: DOSEMU and NFS: 'file is missing' error
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> Don't know why, but I have the same problem. I just doubly verified that it
> is NOT present in dosemu 0.64.3.0 I tried it with many variations ---
> but did not try the old version running under COL2.2 or the new version
> running under an older Linux.
> Hope this helps,
> William O Richmond
>
> Laird Rice wrote:
>
> > The objective is to access and run a DOS program on the Linux server from a
> > second Linux box (both running COL2.2).
> >
> > We have the two computers talking through NFS. Logged in as root, we can
> > mount and view NFS shares, which are exported r/w. In DOSEMU, we can map
> > drive letters to the exported drives and view files. DOSEMU is config'd to
> > allow all users 'c_all' rights. On the host system, the exported
> > directories are chmod'ed '777'.
> >
> > The DOS program we need to run is started with a batch file, that sets
> > environment variables and runs the executable. However, when we try to run
> > the batch file from a DOSEMU session on our client PC we get a "Batch file
> > xxx.BAT file is missing" message. However, we can do a DIR, and LREDIR
> > shows us that all directories are mounted Read/Write. Also, DRDOS 'attrib'
> > command shows no restrictions.
> >
> > Dropping to a command line, we're able to do everything 'root' can normally
> > do in the nfs'd directories, ie. delete, copy, move, etc.
> >
> > Note that this whole thing works flawlessly from DOSEMU locally on the
> > server, via telnet to the server or dialin to the server.
> >
> > Anyone have any idea why this won't work with NFS?