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Re: [THNXS]&[Q]: SMB client for Dos/win3.11



MS networking for DOS -- well, I'll be damned!
Too bad I didn't know about that when it would have been useful.

-Brad

On 30 Apr 1999, Jean L Francois wrote:

> The clients to do SMB for DOS and multiple win and os/2:
> 
> ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/Clients/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From:	bradleyb%u.washington.edu@Internet on 04/30/99 09:48 AM
> To:	j.l.gomez-dans%sheffield.ac.uk@Internet
> cc:	debian-user%lists.debian.org@Internet (bcc: Jean L Francois)
> Subject:	Re: [THNXS]&[Q]: SMB client for Dos/win3.11
> 
> I don't believe there is an SMB client for DOS or Win3x... There would be
> if M$ had any respect for their customer base, but....
> If you have Windows for Workgroups available, I believe that can act as an
> SMB client.
> As for dos, I would suggest looking into NCP, i.e. the NetWare protocol.
> You could make the linux box an NCP print server as well as an SMB print 
> server.  I'm not sure where to get the NCP client for DOS, but I'm sure
> they're around.
> 
> -Brad
> 
> 
> On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 	First of all, thanks to all those who guided me into the depths of
> > installing Linux into an archaic i386 with only 40 megs hard drive. This has
> > been accomplished, and it is now acting as a printer server). 
> > 
> > 	My question is: it's easy enough to connect a win 95/8 machine to
> > this server using samba, but I don't know what sort of software there might
> > be to do the same from DOS and from Win3.11. We have some stuff running
> > under these OS's and would like to take advantage of them. Is there such a
> > client that anyone could point out to? (where to download it from, basically
> > X-D)
> > 
> > 	Thanks a lot,
> > 	Jose
> > -- 
> > Jose L Gomez Dans			PhD student
> > 					Radar & Communications Group
> > 					Department of Electronic Engineering
> > 					University of Sheffield UK
> > 
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