I need to use a samba server (linux redhat 6.0 ) from a diskless dos
machine ( has a floppy drive for booting) . So i need a very little
tcp-ip stack for dos and a client for a NT server on dos so that they
will be small enough to be on a 1.44 system floppy.
Is that possible ?
Paul
It's quite possible. If you have an NT Server around, you can make a Network Installation Startup disk using Network Client Administrator. NCA allows you to pick the protocol (although it's hard to tell this as the scroll bars are very small). You can comment out the lines in autoexec.bat that start the installation. There's also a way of making a network bootable system disk by adding the <NICdriver>.dos file and an ethernet "shim" file along with proper protocol.ini and system.ini files. I use this for Ghosting ... details are in that product for TCP/IP Multicasting. If you want the directions for it I'd be happy to include them. --Adam On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Paul Lacatus wrote:> I need to use a samba server (linux redhat 6.0 ) from a diskless dos > machine ( has a floppy drive for booting) . So i need a very little > tcp-ip stack for dos and a client for a NT server on dos so that they > will be small enough to be on a 1.44 system floppy. > Is that possible ? > > Paul-- **************** * Adam Getchell * acgetchell@ucdavis.edu **************** "Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability in the opponent." -- Sun Tzu
Paul Lacatus wrote:> > I need to use a samba server (linux redhat 6.0 ) from a diskless dos > machine ( has a floppy drive for booting) . So i need a very little > tcp-ip stack for dos and a client for a NT server on dos so that they > will be small enough to be on a 1.44 system floppy.If you look under http://www.bangor.ac.uk/is/iss081/ you'll find 2 "recipes" for boot disks which boot DOS and then allow you to connect to e.g. samba servers. I didn't write either of them - the addresses of the contributors are at the top of the files! Cheers Martin -- Martin Sapsed Tel: +44 (0)1248 382409 Computing Lab Fax: +44 (0)1248 383826 University of Wales, Bangor m.sapsed@bangor.ac.uk North Wales, LL57 2DG Press any key to continue or any other key to quit...
There is a DOS SMB client called "Wolverine" at: <ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/Clients/MSCLIENT> The tricky bit in making the disk is to find the right packet driver for your network card. We've successfully made a number of network boot disks using this package. Good luck, Tim -- Tim Villa, Network / Systems Administrator Faculties of Economics & Commerce, Education and Law The University of Western Australia Phone: +61-8-9380-1796, Fax: +61-8-9380-1068 Mail <mailto:tim.villa@uwa.edu.au> WWW <http://buck.ecel.uwa.edu.au/>
Hi All, I am in need to set Samba as PDC for a group of NT workstattions, or if possible, a group of Win2000 machines. I have just downloaded 2.0.7 and configured it as in the attached document. It works fine for Win95/98 but not NT. It is said that only 2.1 will function and it is retrievable via CVS download. I have tried, but the latest version I can get from CVS is 2.0.4 !!! Can anyone out there give me a hand ? Thanks -- Panyarak Ngamsritragul Department of Mechanical Engineering Prince of Songkla University.