I know, can't be done ... <G> I finally matched up how to pull in the "new" driver for the NIC, and then trash the MS idea of what should be in the system.ini file, and get MS Client for DOS to install the driver correctly on the right interrupt and actually start the network software! [And anyone who dares to say "Is that all???" had better start runnin' before openin' mouth!]
The 'readme' gives me all these hints about what to do with this and that, but although there are files which claim to be tcp/ip stuff, the tcpip setup spoken of does not exist in what MS made available for its free (can you say really legacy) download. Sooo ... do I try to bring telnet up and poll the "server" on NT so it knows I exist? Right now the router doesn't even know it, although I've got a machine name, a user name, and have the software set to include the system in the "workgroup" workgroup, and all that other good crap. I don't care if the router never recognizes me, but damn I'd like it if I could get the NT laptop and the XP desktop to accept my DOS existance! There are some data files & writings I'd like to have backed up elsewhere since my Travan tape drive died (choked on the tape as it stripped it off the spindle?) a couple of years back and I'm still trying to figure out if the problem with the SCSI drive(s) is really HDD centric or if its adapter card/bios centric, and don't say "get new" cuz a new bootable adapter card would run more than a new 80Gig EIDE HDD .. Thus I ask, anyone got any ideas what the next step is to getting the DOS computer recognized by the other workgroup machines??? l.d.
