Re:Networking FreeDOS
by zh3 on Monday May 16, 2022 @03:13PM
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For MSDOS (I've dabbled with FreeDOS) the MSNET client works fine with Samba (with more recent versions, I understand backward compatibility needs to be explicity turned on - same as on Windows).
It's a pretty nice way of running old 386/486 DOS boxes diskless; install a boot ROM in an NE2000/3C509/Realtek NIC, load DOS and map a network drive to the server in autoexec.bat (we use the same boxes to diskless boot old linux distros, back in the days when linux would run fine in 8Mb).
It's a pretty nice way of running old 386/486 DOS boxes diskless; install a boot ROM in an NE2000/3C509/Realtek NIC, load DOS and map a network drive to the server in autoexec.bat (we use the same boxes to diskless boot old linux distros, back in the days when linux would run fine in 8Mb).