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Date:      Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:17:12 +0100
From:      Richard Tetley <richard@tetley.demon.co.uk>
To:        Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Free BSD installation at Lichfield Cathedral, England
Message-ID:  <3jFbLIAYHEf5EwAy@tetley.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <397B939A.90A535CF@gmx.de>
References:  <397B5B89.9EE1A720@tetley.demon.co.uk> <397B939A.90A535CF@gmx.de>

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Marvellous!
Thanks very much indeed.
Richard Tetley

In message <397B939A.90A535CF@gmx.de>, Siegbert Baude
<siegbert.baude@gmx.de> writes
>> In addition there are 2 - DOS-based tills for the Cathedral bookshop
>> whose daily files we want to send to the bookshop server over the
>> network. Putting Windows 95 on the tills would I suppose be feasible,
>> but I bet there is a way of transferring files directly via the server
>> without Windows!
>
>So you are looking for a possibility to establish a TCP/IP-network with
>plain DOS?
>There are two candidates: both from Microsoft and (astonishing) both
>freely available.
>
>MS-client from ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/WG1049.EXE
>LAN-Manager from ftp.microsoft.com/BusSys/Clients/LANMAN/
>You will find MS-client also on the CD of NT-Server in the
>client-directory.
>
>Your NIC must have NDIS2 drivers (every old ne2000-compatible NIC will
>work out of the box, some others are also included but I don't remember
>which ones).
>This is enough to establish SMB-connects (Windows-Networking, for
>FreeBSD you will have to install the Samba-package).
>If you want to use "normal" internet-services like telnet, ftp, or www ,
>you must add a DOS-packet-driver, for example
>DISPKT9 from ftp.cabletron.com/pub/unsupported/dispkt9.zip
>
>Hope this helps
>Siegbert

-- 
Richard Tetley


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