Trying to add a couple of DOS boxes to my network. I can get as far as installing MSClient3.0 and NETBEUI. With this I can connect to my win3x/9x/2k shared drives but cant connect to the DOSbox from the WINboxes. ?? All have NETBEUI installed. Shouldnt I be able to see the DOSbox drives with NETBEUI?
Just being able to read and write to my other computers from DOS made me want to shoot for the stars :) So I did some reading about creating DOS servers...shouldnt be too much over my head..right? :) Started off with installing TCP and stopped there...LOL. After installing TCP computer freezes at line.. C:\>C:\NET\tcptsr.exe
Initializing TCP/IP via DHCP.... 

Figured either its a memory problem (TSR) or a ROUTER/IP problem....or... ??
Anybody want to walk a fool through the world of DOS networking?...at least a couple steps? 


This is because it is only a CLIENT. But there is a solution. M$ released patches for a product named M$ WorkGroup Add-on for MSDOS that can share files, it's very similar to M$ Client, but not free. You can download the update here: (only three files:
NET.EXE, NET.MSG and NETH.MSG)
ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/Pcibm/microsoft/MSLFILES/WG1049.EXE

This is a fix to another problem, see this page for a description:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q129/1/64.asp
you can use it instead of the other patch (the files are same but newer):
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/nnet.exe

Overwrite the files with the same name in the C:\NET directory (or whatever you have installed M$ Client).

Then edit the SYSTEM.INI file that is located in your network directory. There should be two lines near the beginning of this file that read something like 'filesharing=no' and 'printsharing=no'. Change both of these to 'yes'.(Unless you don't want to share these resources) 

Type NET SHARE /? This gives good directions on how to share resources and tells you about the options that you have. 
Share your resources now. All resources that you share will be remembered for next time you start up your computer. 

You can get here a text interface to configure more easily your shares:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/netshar.exe

You can use NetBEUI protocol (recommended) or TCP/IP (it will eat up much memory). But if you want to use DHCP with TCP/IP you will need a DHCP server configured and running, or assing TCP/IP addresses statically (recommended if you have few boxes). Your computer doesn't freeze, it is searching a DCHP server sending packets across the net, but it should be slow and this takes it a log time (specially if you don't have that server).