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
>
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