(Picture of MS client 3.0)
Microsoft's programs "LAN manager" and "MS Client 3.0" can be
downloaded from Microsoft's ftp-site and are free for "internal use",
but not for distribution.
* MS LAN manager Client (1998) can be found at:
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/Clients/LANMAN/ (*01)
* MS Client 3.0 (1995) can be found at:
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/Clients/MSCLIENT/ (*02)
There are numerous webpages about the installation and usage especially
of MS Client 3.0:
* A general review and comparison, see:
http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/samba/dos.html (*03) of both Microsoft
products has been undertaken by Dutch programmer Jacco de Leeuw,
see: http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/ (*04).
* U.S. programmer Jonathan Young has created a nice looking MS Client
installation walkthrough,see:
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~joyoung/msnetclnt/Page1.shtml (*05)
with many screenshots. James Hatridge wrote an article, see:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5837 (*06) about MS Client
for Linux Journal in 2002. Johnson Lam has also written an
installation report, see: http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/msclient.html
(*07).
* Ken from British website "DOS Solutions" gives a detailed overview
over many resources related to MS Client, see:
http://www.dossolutions.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/network.htm#tcp (*08).
* Installation guides in German language have been written by Gerhard
Zeiser, see: http://www.comp-o-ass.de/dokumente/ms-dos-client.pdf
(*09), by Gerd Roethig, see:
http://www.gerd-roethig.de/dosnet.html (*10), by Michael Vogl, see:
http://home.arcor.de/michael-vogl/tcpip-fd.htm (*11) and by Stefan
Mayrhofer, see:
http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/FreeDOS-Kompendium:_Konfiguration:_Netzwerk
(*12).
The magazine "c't" published an article about MS Client in 1999,
see:
http://www.heise.de/kiosk/archiv/ct/1999/21/310_DOS_im_SMB-Netzwerk
(*13). Volker Rueddigkeit wrote some howtos (german) about MS
Client bootdisks, here:
http://medien.bildung.hessen.de/einrichtungen_medien/support/archiv/
clients/clients.html (*14) and here:
http://medien.bildung.hessen.de/einrichtungen_medien/support/
archiv/msclient.html (*15).
It is possible (but not officially supported) to use a Microsoft
update to add server functionality to MS Client. This Update is called
WG1049.EXE and can be downloaded here:
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/wg1049.exe (*16)
In effect this adds features comparable to those of the "Workgroup
Add-On for DOS", which is not longer sold by Microsoft.
(Picture: DOS Workgroup Add-On for MS-DOS)
The integration of a DOS machine into a modern Windows XP or GNU/Linux
SMB Workgroup is limited though. For instance it doesn't seem to be
possible to access a DOS share from GNU/Linux using smbmount. And the
use of TCP/IP as protocol in MS Client consumes much memory and may
lead to an unstable DOS system.
Steven Baker critically remarks that, see:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070314043508/http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~gillies
/9802net.html (*17), while the core TCP/IP protocol remained stable
over the years, Microsoft's SMB protocols changed from upgrade to
upgrade and exist "in a dozen different dialects". So compatibility is
an issue. Other problems can be caused by the authentication methods
that are used by Windows or Samba.
Apart from that it can be considered a good thing that Microsoft still
allows to legally download and use this software. Some files from the
"MS Client" package are also essential for the use of TCP/IP appli-
cations over today's common NDIS drivers.
* NFS
* You could use a FTP server on DOS which runs in the background
(as Datalight Sockets, which is explained here, see: http://
sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=48BC5752.3090303%40
mainz-online.de (*18) and a tool to map a FTP server to a drive
letter (for Windows f.i.: netdrive) - see: http://www.netdrive.net/
(*19) to integrate your DOS machine into a network. GNU/Linux
can even mount FTP servers without an extra tool.
(*01) Link is no longer available, new links:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Sharing_files_with_DOS
AND:
https://archive.org/download/ftp.microsoft.com/ftp.microsoft.
com.zip/ftp.microsoft.com%2Fbussys%2FClients%2FMSCLIENT%2FDSK3-1.EXE
(everything in ONE LINE, NO free space!)
AND
https://archive.org/download/ftp.microsoft.com/ftp.microsoft.
com.zip/ftp.microsoft.com%2Fbussys%2FClients%2FMSCLIENT%2FDSK3-2.EXE
(everything in ONE LINE, NO free space!)
AND:
http://download.amd.com/techdownloads/wfw31.zip
AND:
https://archive.org/download/ftp.microsoft.com/ftp.microsoft.
com.zip/ftp.microsoft.com%2FSoftlib%2FMSLFILES%2FWG1049.EXE
(everything in ONE LINE, NO free space!)
AND:
https://archive.org/download/ftp.microsoft.com/ftp.microsoft.
com.zip/ftp.microsoft.com%2FSoftlib%2FMSLFILES%2FNETSHAR.EXE
(everything in ONE LINE, NO free space!)
AND:
https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/121/Q121086/
AND:
https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/128/Q128800/
(*02) = (*01)
(*03) Link is still OK, see also:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210322102528/http://www.jacco2.dds.
nl/samba/dos.html
(everything in ONE LINE, NO free space!)
(*04) Link is still OK, see also:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220219070753/http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/
(*05) Link is no longer available, new link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20100819050950/http://www.ocf.
berkeley.edu/~joyoung/msnetclnt/Page1.shtml
(everything in ONE LINE, NO free space!)
(*06) Link is still OK, see also:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220516143802/https://www.linuxjournal.
com/article/5837
(everything in ONE LINE, NO free space!)
(*07) Link is no longer available, new link:
http://optimizr.no-ip.org/dos/index.html
(*08) Link is no longer available, new link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20081009101401/http://
www.dossolutions.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/network.htm
(everything in ONE LINE, NO free space!)
(*09) Link is still OK, see also:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220516143734/http://www.comp-o-ass.de/
dokumente/ms-dos-client.pdf
(everything in ONE LINE, NO free space!)
(*10) Link is no longer available, new link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120613014412/http://www.gerd-roethig.
de/dosnet.html
(everything in ONE LINE, NO free space!)
(*11) Link is no longer available, new link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20100414005634/http://home.arcor.de/
michael-vogl/tcpip-fd.htm
(everything in ONE LINE, NO free space!)
(*12) Link is still OK, see also:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220516143736/https://de.wikibooks.org/
wiki/FreeDOS-Kompendium:_Konfiguration:_Netzwerk
(everything in ONE LINE, NO free space!)
(*13) Link is still OK, but you have to pay for the article.
Sorry, no new link found.
(*14) Link is no longer available, new link:
http://www.tbecker-net.de/clients.pdf
(*15) Link is no longer available, new link:
https://www.yumpu.com/de/document/view/3363913/mit-ms-dos-
und-einer-diskette-in-alle-microsoft-netzwerke
(everything in ONE LINE, NO free space!)
(*16) Link is no longer available, new link:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Sharing_files_with_DOS
OR:
https://archive.org/download/ftp.microsoft.com/ftp.microsoft.
com.zip/ftp.microsoft.com%2FSoftlib%2FMSLFILES%2FWG1049.EXE
(everything in ONE LINE, NO free space!)
(*17) Link is still OK, see also:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110831220440/http://www.ece.ubc.ca/
~gillies/9802net.html
(everything in ONE LINE, NO free space!)
(*18) Sorry, no new link found.
(*19) Link is still OK, see also:
https://web.archive.org/web/20091225235810/http://www.netdrive.
net/home.html
(everything in ONE LINE, NO free space!)
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