Networking a Dos computer to NT4.0 worksation?

[Cad]

Can this be done? I recently added a NT4.0 workstation a our network and am using it as a mini-server. One of our machine shop programs is DOS based and I would like to move all files it currently looks to on a W95 machine, to the NT machine. I'm not sure if this is do-able or not as the NT machine is not running NT Server. Any help would be appreciated !!!!

[Vernon Frazee]

Depends on the program. If it has a configuration file that can be
altered so it will look on a different drive for its data files, it
should work. For instance, here's the beginning of an example
MSHOPPRO.CFG file:

   * Machine Shop Pro version 5.32 configuration file
   *
   * General settings
   DATA DRIVE C:\CAD\
   INDEX DRIVE C:\CAD\
   DATABASE CAD

If your server was say, drive "S:", simply move the MSHOPPRO CAD data
files to S:\CAD and then change the "C:" on the "DATA DRIVE" line in the
configuration file to "S:".

[Tadd]

I haven't been able to do what you are asking to do. Peer to peer networking with an MSDOS machine is what you are looking for I think since you are not running the NT SERVER operating system.

I have a program called IPROUTE that I can run on my MSDOS machine that can use IP to send files back and forth to my NT workstation but I haven't found a system to let me have the NT machine show up as a drive letter on the MSDOS computer. Once I quit out of IPROUTE which runs as a foreground application (takes over the MSDOS computer), the MSDOS computer is again isolated.

You might check out what features NT SERVER has to offer and at what cost. Novell would let you do this I think so NT probably does too but only under the NT SERVER configuration. You might also see what it would take to get your MSDOS application to run in a DOS Shell under MSWindows NT or 98 and what the costs would be to make your MSDOS computer capable of doing that.

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