Ah, OK. Thanks for setting me straight Ben. Last time I monkeyed with this it was like on Netware 3.x....
Jeff On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
