Re: Networking

[Jiri Baum <jiri@baum.com.au>]

Hello,

Bal K. Paudyal:
> I have two pcs at home with net-work cards, PC-A & PC-B. In PC-A there is
> no CDROM drive, I installed Debian Linux base from floppies. In order to
> make room for Linux, I had to get rid of Windows 95 at PC-A, but I have
> kept DOS6.22 & Windows3.1.  Now, I can't connect to my Win95 PC-B using
> Windows Network & IPX/SPX protocol because there is no Windows95 or
> Windows for Work Groups at Linux/Dos PC-A.

You can network Win95 and Linux using samba and TCP/IP.

On the Win95 end, switch to the TCP/IP protocol. On the linux end, install
the smbfs and samba packages (perhaps also smb-nat), and make sure the
smbfs module is in the kernel (check /proc/filesystems).

One problem is that from the linux end, file listings tend to be
incomplete. I'm told recompiling the kernel will help, and I'm going to do
that RSN here at home.

> I want to transfer my important files to the DOS partition of my
> Linux/Dos system using some kind of network before I start playing with
> my very important and state of the art PC-B. Is there anyway I can
> network DOS with Windows 95?

The other way, which will probably be much less bother (but much less
flexible) is Laplink, as someone else already suggested.

Laplink is a wonderful program that can handle almost anything. However, we
use an old (pre-W95) version; I've no idea whether the current version is
still so robust. (The only thing our version had troubles with was W95 -
but even then all it needed was to run in MS-DOS mode.)

The two computers need to be connected by a serial or a special parallel
cable. Once up, laplink presents two boxes on the screen, a local one and a
remote one, and lets you copy between the two.


HTH

Jiri
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