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Microsoft Network client MSDOS IBM AT

robbo007

robbo007

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Hi guys,
I've got my IBM AT setup with Microsoft MSDOS networking client so I can access a share on my Windows XP machine on the network. I've got everything loaded on the AT with TCP/IP and Netbeui protocols. I've got a router between the IBM AT and the Windows XP machine. Pings work between machines.

From my understanding Netbeui is not a routable protocol. Is there any way to have the Microsoft client work with only TCP/IP?

I get the error 6118: The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available. It seems to connect to the share but can't list the contents. Gets an error 53 on a DIR.

I gather this is because the netbeui protocol can't reach the Windows XP machine due to it not being routable?

Thanks,
 
I worked in an environment where we had windows 2003 servers (basically XP) and we used DOS boot floppies to connect to network shares on a 2003 server to do bare metal restores in the case of a catastrophic failure. At some point something change, I believe it was a security patch, and the DOS client could no longer connect. I believe there was a work around, group policy or reg key, I don't recall for sure, but the security team would not allow us to use it o the windows servers. Out backup vendor gave us a WinPE disk to use for our bare metal restores from that point onward.

So, I believe it is possible to use TCP/IP only, but that may still not work if your XP install is relatively current on patches, at least not without some tweaks.
 
Thanks for the responses. Yeah I have that registry settings set to 0. I have other machines on the direct ethernet network connecting fine to the Windows XP share but they use netbeui also with TCPIP. Its just the one machine that has a router forwarding ip from another subnet between it, that does not work. I was thinking its because of NetBEUI not be able to be forwarded. If I dont load netbeui protocol in my protocol.ini when i use the command net view or net use to map the drive (or start the workstation service on the DOS PC) I get an error about netbeui not loaded. So do you need the workstation service to use the command net use ? if so what am I missing on the DOS side configuration so it works only with TCP/IP ?
 
Resolved. Darn Windows XP firewall. As this is a different subnet to my other dos machines I forgot to check that :)
Cheers
 
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