I have a pi running raspbian (debian 10) and samba 4.9 which serves files to a set of DOS QEMU VMs using the MSCLIENT 3.0 for DOS network stack.
It's pretty cool to see DOS boxes running on an ARM. Anyway, what follows isn't pretty but here are ALL of the pertinent details I can think to share. Note that it has been a year or two since I set this up so I don't remember all of the little gotchas that I had to deal with at the time. There is always something. I hope that there is something in here that helps! Please note this is for a host-only network so security in this config is wide open - you will need to decide if using "guest ok = yes" and "read only = no" is safe - it would effectively allow anyone to connect and delete all of your files. pi@basement:~ $ cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)" NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="10" VERSION="10 (buster)" VERSION_CODENAME=buster ID=raspbian ID_LIKE=debian HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"; SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"; BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"; pi@basement:~ $ smbd --version Version 4.9.5-Debian pi@basement:~ $ grep -v '^$' /etc/samba/smb.conf | egrep -v '^[#;]' [global] workgroup = BBSNET netbios name = BBSMAIN username map = /etc/samba/usermap.txt log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 logging = file panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d server role = standalone server passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . pam password change = yes map to guest = bad user [SHARED] comment = BBS Common files path = /bbs/shared read only = no guest ok = yes browseable = yes force create mode = 0660 force directory mode = 2770 force user = pi pi@basement:~ $ ls /etc/samba/ gdbcommands smb.conf tls pi@basement:~ $ ls /etc/samba/tls pi@basement:~ $ Here is one of the DOS nodes starting under freedos 1.3-rc2 Inside the session I also show the contents of autoexec and config, as well as the output of mem with all of the drivers loaded. pi@basement:/data/nodes/file $ sudo ./start.sh starting qemu 1 - Start a standard BBS node 2 - Start in setup/configuration mode 3 - Don't load anything Select from Menu [123], or press [ENTER] (Selection=2) Singlestepping (F8) is: OFF JemmEx v5.78 [07/15/12] JemmEx loaded Kernel: allocated 45 Diskbuffers = 23940 Bytes in HMA FreeCom version 0.84-pre7 - WATCOMC - XMS_Swap [May 28 2020 19:21:14] Performing action: APMDOS If APMDOS slows down any app, use ADV:REG instead. Going resident. UDVD2, 3-05-2015. CD/DVD name is FDCD0001. BAD Controller at I-O address C020h, Chip I.D. 80867010h. CD0: IDE0 Secondary-master, QEMU DVD-ROM, PIO. LBAcache disk read cache for XMS + 386, E. Auer <e...@coli.uni-sb.de> 2001-2006 License: GPL 2. Up to 8 harddisks, 2 floppy, LBA / CHS. Version: 07apr2008. Detecting harddisks: disk 0x80 heads=0016 sectors=0063 [done] [No floppy cache: no change lines] XMS allocated: 20.00 MB, driver size with tables and stack: 25859 bytes. SHARE installed. AMD PCNet Family Ethernet Adapter NDIS v2.0.1 MAC Driver, Version 3.12 DriverName ........ PCNTND$ Station Address ... 00.43.DE.ED.01.50 Driver configuration. IOAddress ......... 0xC000 Interrupt ......... 11 DMA ............... 0 Rx Buffers ..... 4 Tx Buffers ..... 4 Microsoft DOS TCP/IP Protocol Driver 1.0a Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, 1991. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) Hewlett-Packard Corporation, 1985-1991. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 3Com Corporation, 1985-1991. All rights reserved. Microsoft DOS TCP/IP NEMM Driver 1.0 The command completed successfully. MS-DOS LAN Manager v2.1 Netbind Microsoft DOS TCP/IP 1.0a G: connected to \\BBSMAIN\SHARED.. The command completed successfully. C:\> C:\>dir /w g: Volume in drive G is SHARED Directory of G:\ [.] [..] [SRC] [TPPATCH] [PERL] [OLD] [BBS1] [SERIAL] WG1049.EXE [MSGS] [TXTFILES] [DICT] [STATUS] [ONLINERS] [TEMP] [TP6] [FILES] [UTILS] O7SC3C~9.EXE [NODE] [TAG] [MULTI] [FREECOM] [DOC] 2 file(s) 84,249,523 bytes 22 dir(s) 2,147,450,880 bytes free C:\> C:\>ver FreeCom version 0.84-pre7 - WATCOMC - XMS_Swap [May 28 2020 19:21:14] C:\> C:\>type \fdos\version.fdi PLATFORM=FreeDOS VERSION=1.3-RC2 RELEASE=2019-12-02 C:\> C:\>mem Memory Type Total Used Free ---------------- -------- -------- -------- Conventional 639K 204K 435K Upper 108K 92K 16K Reserved 277K 277K 0K Extended (XMS) 129,920K 21,102K 108,818K ---------------- -------- -------- -------- Total memory 130,944K 21,675K 109,269K Total under 1 MB 747K 296K 451K Total Expanded (EMS) 8,576K (8,781,824 bytes) Free Expanded (EMS) 8,192K (8,388,608 bytes) Largest executable program size 435K (445,776 bytes) Largest free upper memory block 13K ( 13,728 bytes) FreeDOS is resident in the high memory area. C:\> C:\>type config.sys !SWITCHES=/F !DOS=HIGH,UMB !DOSDATA=UMB !FILES=40 !BUFFERS=20 !LASTDRIVE=Z MENUCOLOR=7,0 MENUDEFAULT=1,5 MENU 1 - Start a standard BBS node MENU 2 - Start in setup/configuration mode MENU 3 - Don't load anything 1?SET CONF=BBSNODE 2?SET CONF=SETUP 12?DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\JEMMEX.EXE NOEMS X=TEST I=TEST NOVME NOINVLPG 12?SHELLHIGH=C:\FDOS\BIN\COMMAND.COM C:\FDOS\BIN /E:1024 /P=C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT 12?DEVICEHIGH=C:\NET\ifshlp.sys 3?SHELLHIGH=C:\FDOS\BIN\COMMAND.COM C:\FDOS\BIN /E:1024 /D 3?SET PATH=C:\FDOS\BIN C:\>type autoexec.bat @ECHO OFF PATH C:\NET;C:\FDOS\BIN;C:\UTILS PROMPT $P$G SET TEMP=C:\TEMP LH FDAPM APMDOS IF "%CONF%"=="BBSNODE" GOTO SKIPCD DEVLOAD /H /Q C:\FDOS\BIN\UDVD2.SYS /D:FDCD0001 SHSUCDX /QQ /~ /D:FDCD0001 :SKIPCD LH LBACACHE 20480 LH SHARE C:\NET\net initialize C:\NET\netbind.com C:\NET\umb.com C:\NET\tcptsr.exe C:\NET\tinyrfc.exe C:\NET\nmtsr.exe C:\NET\emsbfr.exe C:\NET\net start IF NOT "%CONF%"=="BBSNODE" GOTO END :BBS echo Starting BBS CD \BBS TAG if errorlevel 255 goto END goto BBS :END C:\> C:\>fdapm /poweroff Performing action: POWEROFF Turning OFF system... Calling int28 so MSCLIENT can flush... Resetting DOS filesystem and BIOS disk handler... done. Giving disk handlers some time.. On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 9:22 AM Sean Warner <plica2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Liam, > > If this app is copy-protected and needs a dongle, then I suspect it > won't run in a VM, because the dongle won't be connected to the VM. > > How about just running Windows 7 32-bit in a VM, and trying that way? > You already have it, presumably licensed > > If the dongle won't be recognized by an OS running in a VM then I guess I > really do have a showstopper situation with freedos or win 7 or win 10 32 > bit. > > Is this for sure do you think? Well if I ever get the program to run I'll > see. > > Cheers, > > Sean > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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