I was referring to the recommendation of using a "folder" as a drive under DOSEMU. I don't believe that solution supports multiple node access to the same folder.
SMB (i.e. MSCLIENT and Samba) were designed for this use case. - Darrin On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 9:13 AM Sean Warner <plica2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Darrin, > > "As far as I know/recall, you can not have multiple DOS instances with > read-write on the same shared linux folder." > > I am hoping to use your type of set up and have several... maybe 3 > freedos, or possibly 3 x Win 7 or Win XP clients (running in a VM) connect > to the same samba share at the same time on the Linux os. > > The dos application won't let the clients update the same data > simultaneously but they should be able to read and write to that share > simultaneously. > > Are you saying this won't be possible if I use a Linux os to host the > samba share? Can you explain a bit more that "period correct" solution you > mentioned? > > Thank you, > > Sean > > > > > On Thu 3 Mar 2022, 13:27 Darrin M. Gorski, <dar...@gorski.net> wrote: > >> >> > That sounds unnecessarily complex >> >> Or interesting, I guess it depends on your perspective. >> >> > You could run the DOS apps in a number of DOSEMU2 windows which can use >> Linux directories as drives. >> >> I did run this under DOSEMU on x86 Linux in the past, but I much prefer >> QEMU over DOSEMU - for a number of reasons. QEMU can run any guest OS, >> DOSEMU only runs DOS. QEMU can run on many host architectures and OSes, >> DOSEMU can only run on x86 Linux. >> >> But the original question was about DOS and Samba, I just happen to use >> QEMU to run DOS, so I thought I'd mention it. >> >> > which can use Linux directories as drives. >> >> As far as I know/recall, you can not have multiple DOS instances with >> read-write on the same shared linux folder. This is a problem for a >> multi-node BBS where all nodes need to be able to write to the filesystem. >> Using MSCLIENT with SHARE is a period-correct solution (many BBS systems >> have direct built-in support for this). >> >> - Darrin >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 4:53 PM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> >> 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. >>> >>> That sounds unnecessarily complex: You could run the DOS apps in a >>> number of DOSEMU2 windows which can use Linux directories as drives. >>> This would not require any Samba or any MSCLINT to be running :-) >>> >>> Not sure when DOSEMU2 will support Raspberry Pi, but for those who >>> have PC compatible computers, it would be an easy method to run a >>> number of DOS apps simultaneously. >>> >>> However, your answer is great for the general question how DOS can >>> connect to Windows drives today! I think Linux and Samba make it a >>> lot easier to disable security (only sane for restricted networks) >>> sufficently to make DOS clients happy, compared to using Windows. >>> >>> Regards, Eric >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Freedos-user mailing list >>> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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