Dear List,
Please could anyone shed light on this for me? I have two PCs, one a dual-boot Linux/DOS Athlon and one a DOS-only 586. When both are running DOS, I use Invisible-LAN to connect them so that I can transfer files quickly and easily via their Ethernet adapters (one 3Com 3C509 and one with DEC 21041 chip, connected via UTP).
I can't find anything that will enable me to connect them when one is running DOS and the other is running Linux (Slack 8.1, 2.4.18). I can't get Invisible-LAN to run in DOSEMU, either, so I seem to be stuck.
Can anyone suggest what I could run at the DOS end and what to do at the Linux end so that both will talk to each other on the Ethernet?
Thanks in advance!
Gerald.
Edenyard mail@edenyard.co.uk wrote:
Can anyone suggest what I could run at the DOS end and what to do at the Linux end so that both will talk to each other on the Ethernet?
You need a "packet driver" for the ethernet card on the DOS end and then you should be able to use SSHDOS to transfer files. http://sshdos.sf.net/ Some packet drivers are at http://www.simtel.net/pub/msdos/pktdrvr and ftp://ftp.crynwr.com/drivers
Hope that helps get them talking.
On Sat, 08 Feb 2003 16:42:48 +0000 "Edenyard" mail@edenyard.co.uk wrote:
Dear List,
Please could anyone shed light on this for me? I have two PCs, one a dual-boot Linux/DOS Athlon and one a DOS-only 586. When both are running DOS, I use Invisible-LAN to connect them so that I can transfer files quickly and easily via their Ethernet adapters (one 3Com 3C509 and one with DEC 21041 chip, connected via UTP).
I can't find anything that will enable me to connect them when one is running DOS and the other is running Linux (Slack 8.1, 2.4.18). I can't get Invisible-LAN to run in DOSEMU, either, so I seem to be stuck.
Can anyone suggest what I could run at the DOS end and what to do at the Linux end so that both will talk to each other on the Ethernet?
Do you need DOS applications to be able to work directly with remote files by mapping a drive letter to the remote end, or is file transfiler like FTP acceptable?
If you need the former then options are limited:
* Microsoft may still offer a DOS client for SMB networking (aka. LANMAN and Windows Networking) free of charge for which the Linux end would be samba. The disadvantage of this is the the DOS client uses much of the available conventional memory so rather limits what applications you can run on top of it.
* The IPX client for Novell Netware 3 is fairly small and efficient and there may be a Linux end for that - you'd have to search for one. The downside of this is that you probably don't have a copy of this if you don't have a Netware server.
* There are some NFS clients for PCs. I know Sun microsystems did one and one also came as part of a product called PC/TCP though I forget now who made the latter.
If you just need to copy files like FTP:
* FTP clients are often included with DOS TCP/IP networking software. I don't have a list of suppliers for these now as it has been so long since I did anything like that.
* IIRC the DOS version of Kermit has built-in TCP/IP which it can use to do telnet and also transfer files using the kermit protocol. There are a couple of Linux (Unix) implementations of kermit - gkermit and C-Kermit. See the kermit website http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ for more details.
Steve.
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