On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Roger Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> How can I remotely access the file system on a networked DOS machine?

  You don't.  MS-DOS doesn't include a network server.  Neither do any
of the LAN Manager clients (or their later incarnations of "Client for
Microsoft Networks"), as far as I know.

  MS-DOS is very primitive.  The resident OS did almost nothing beyond
providing a filesystem driver.  I've heard it called a "non-reentrant
interrupt handler"; that's fairly accurate.

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Jeff Bunting <[email protected]> wrote:
> I thought you could NET USE, but you have to load SHARE.EXE in config.sys
> first?

  SHARE.EXE just gave the ability for an MS-DOS system to do file
locking, so that more than one process could access the same file.  It
didn't actually share anything over a network.

-- Ben

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