Atari ST

From: Scott Stevens <sastevens_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Mon Apr 5 16:08:25 2004

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 17:26:14 -0400
"Jeffrey H. Ingber" <jingber_at_ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 22:22 +0100, Philip Pemberton wrote:
>
> How are you doing this? MS Lan Manager doesn't speak SMB AFAIK, and
> Samba doesn't speak NetBEUI.
>
> Jeff
>
>
> > I've got a 386 PC sitting behind me running Caldera DR-DOS 7.03. It's got 8MB
> > of base RAM and is fitted with an Ethernet card. I've even got it
> > communicating with the SAMBA (Windows File And Print Sharing) server. Without
> > the SMB junk loaded, it's got 617KB of free "conventional" RAM. With SMB
> > (well, M$ Client for DOS) loaded, it usually has about 417KB free. Did I
> > mention the fact that both Turbo Pascal 7 and Turbo C++ 3 will run quite
> > happily on this system?
>
>
There are TCP/IP drivers for the Microsoft Client for DOS. Samba 'just works' with it.

I used to run it years ago with a Linux box with the 1.2 kernel. You can set up the Microsoft Client to boot up from just a single diskette if you trim down the config to the bare minimum. Then you can put up a system with just a floppy disk, no hard drive, with the Samba share mounting as C:. I found through experimentation that you can then install Windows 3.1 on that 'C' drive from the floppy disks. Windows 3, installed this way, doesn't even know there is a network involved. So you can then have a whole system booting from a floppy that has a network mounted Windows 3 on it. This is, of course, of limited value today, but it's interesting to fool with, or it was back when all some of us could afford was a single 386 box to run Windows, so we had to use 286 and earlier boxes to 'fool around' with networking at home.

And to be honest, I wish I'd been scarfing up Dec and old Sun stuff back then and not diddling around with PC junk and those 3Com ethernet cards I got at a surplus store (ancient 3c501s) for $2.50 a pound.
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