Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for easy to follow instructions on how to connect to Samba share

2022-03-01 Thread Darrin M. Gorski
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.

Re: [Freedos-user] ECHO vs @ECHO

2022-03-01 Thread Bret Johnson
I normally don't use DOS < 3.3 myself, either. But I do have programs that claim to work with DOS 3.0 or 3.1 so I want to make sure they actually work where they claim to. I guess hardly anybody really uses DOS < 3.3 any more, except maybe the few people who still have working PC/XT/Jr

Re: [Freedos-user] ECHO vs @ECHO

2022-03-01 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On Mar 1, 2022, at 3:29 PM, tom ehlert wrote: > [..] > I'm still surprised the > > ECHO Off | VGoToXY Up | VEcho /N /E > > line doesn't work, but as I don't care about MSDOS 3.x anyway I will > be able to live with that > > Tom +1 I don’t spend much time using MS-DOS 1 & 2 or any

Re: [Freedos-user] ECHO vs @ECHO

2022-03-01 Thread tom ehlert
> if I wrote > anything I think it would be something that actually tries to > manipulate the ECHO state (if that's even possible without a WHOLE lot of > work). 1'st) you still get the output of your ECHOSTATE OFF program on screen, which started the whole discussion. 2'nd) there is no

Re: [Freedos-user] ECHO vs @ECHO

2022-03-01 Thread Bret Johnson
> There is one other thing to try via v8power tools. Instead of using > vgotoxy up | vecho /n /e, there is another combination to do it as > well. > > echo off | vgotoxy up | vdelete > > Anyhow, vdelete is a far simpler program than vecho. You may even > have better compatibility results. I'll

Re: [Freedos-user] ECHO vs @ECHO

2022-03-01 Thread tom ehlert
>> Multi-booting all those OSes off a single partition is very *VERY* >> much a hard way of doing this. > Actually, no it's not. It's fairly easy with System Commander. +1 while I didn't use System Commander, *ALL* of us were booting multiple systems from the same disk (and possibly also

Re: [Freedos-user] ECHO vs @ECHO

2022-03-01 Thread Bret Johnson
> Multi-booting all those OSes off a single partition is very *VERY* > much a hard way of doing this. Actually, no it's not. It's fairly easy with System Commander. And AFAIK, System Commander is the only multi-boot manager that works this way (manipulating the boot files instead of

Re: [Freedos-user] ECHO vs @ECHO

2022-03-01 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi, > If I run either TEST1.BAT or TEST2.BAT with MS-DOS 3.0, 3.1, or 3.2, it > crashes. That is definitely possible. Since the earliest version of DOS I really only every used was MS 3.3, I never have worried about pre-3.3 compatibility. > If I run them with MS-DOS 3.3 or 4.01 the session

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for easy to follow instructions on how to connect to Samba share

2022-03-01 Thread Sean Warner
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for easy to follow instructions on how to connect to Samba share

2022-03-01 Thread Liam Proven
On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 at 02:41, Sean Warner wrote: > > Thanks Liam, > > Not sure if you saw my more recent post... You changed the subject/title line. In Gmail, that broke the thread and made your 2nd message into a new thread. > I now have a version of FreeDOS 1.2 with the NIC and MS Client

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for easy to follow instructions on how to connect to Samba share

2022-03-01 Thread Sean Warner
Thanks Jerome. I'll take a look at EtherDFS.. Regarding Win 10 being snobbish. Smbv1 is now disabled by default in Win 10. You can enable it and you might need to change the local security policy in each win 10 client also to allow lanman auth.. not sure if you can do that in Win10 home Ed. At

Re: [Freedos-user] ECHO vs @ECHO

2022-03-01 Thread Liam Proven
On Sat, 26 Feb 2022 at 02:57, Bret Johnson wrote: > > I have a large set of DOS environments I use for testing. Basically, I have > a bunch of different versions of DOS that I can boot to (MS-DOS, PC-DOS, > FreeDOS, DR-DOS, from versions 3.0 to the latest of each). DOS versions 1 & > 2 were

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for easy to follow instructions on how to connect to Samba share

2022-03-01 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi, I’m no expert on Samba shares. But from personal experience, your probably not going to have much luck. I have a Linux server on my home network. When I let it use a minimum of SMB2, all but one ancient Mac will chat with it. No problem. But to get that one Mac working, requires lowering

Re: [Freedos-user] ECHO vs @ECHO

2022-03-01 Thread tom ehlert
Bret, > 3. Just let the problem happen and "fix" the screen afterwords Jerome's approach is probably the only sensible solution, like >> echo off | vgotoxy up | vecho /n /e > This to me seems like a solution that could actually do what I'm > wanting to accomplish. I may experiment with that

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for easy to follow instructions on how to connect to Samba share

2022-03-01 Thread Sean Warner
Hi Dennis, Thanks for the detailed response. There is a bit of pressure from my IT dept to upgrade both the file server that the network share resides on and the win 7 laptops that we use to run the dos app in. When they recently upgraded another file server the dos app had to be moved to