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Connecting MSDOS to Windows 2000

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by zounubi

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My question has two parts:
1- How I can connect MSDOS to Windows 2000 server?
2- How I can share the MSDOS's printer after login to Windows 2000 server?

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by erikdr

1. By having MS-Net client on the DOS system.
This is available e.g. through the Client Diskette creator of NT (!) Server, on the RIS client disks that W2K Server can create (but in a version that needs quite some changes to be useful more genericly), and on sites like www.bootdisk.com.
2. Not really. Windows for Workgroups 3.1 is about the first version of 'DOS' still working as server in a W2K compatible way. For DOS, it would be MS-NET version 1 or 2 which was last updated somewhere 1988 (!) and lacks all drivers you wanna use. In between MS-Net and WfW, MS was on the OS/2 1.x track..

Have fun,

- The Netherlands

by tjc

You can not properly network a plain msdos system to a w2k system. You need something like Lantalk or Lantastic to do all the networking between the two.

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