On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Eric Auer wrote:
} Hi, you did not explain why "shared folders" is related to EMM386.
Sorry - I thought it was common knowledge that Virtual PC's fshare.exe
[the program that allows a PC in VPC to see the hosts's shares/network
shares] will not run when EMM386 is running. If I start FreeDOS with
EMM386 running, fshare.exe will error out and not mount any shared drives
I have defined in VPC, hense the reason I am using the HIMEM XMS driver.
} I think shared folders are network drives. Can you run chkdsk on
} them? Probably not. This means that the filesystem lowlevel properties
} are completely invisible to DOS, and you neither need NTFSDOS nor would
} NTFSDOS be of any help.
Running chkdsk on my S: drive [see below for what S: is] gives me:
S:\>chkdsk s:
ChkDsk beta 0.31
Copyright 2002, 2003 Imre Leber under the GNU GPL
Invalid BOOT sector
S:\>
} Please try with a non-NTFS shared folder (e.g. share a local folder on
} your Mac harddisk with VPC) first. Do you still get question marks there?
} If so, maybe it is caused by language specific chars being anywhere in
} the directory or file name?
I tried my Mac's HFS+ [native Mac OS X format] volume and got the same
results. I created a directory on my mac, simply called "testing" and used
VPC's share folder feature to make that my FreeDOS S: drive. There are no
files in that folder, yet when I run dir on that folder I get ???????? as
the volume name, and an endless list of files that look like this:
???????? ??? 0 00-00-1980 12:00a
until I hit control-C. My Mac [and me] are in the US, using english as the
main and only language. Since my S: drive is empty, it shouldn't be an
issue anyway. I am not sure what 'dir' is really reading from. It outputs
my C: drive just fine.
} It should not matter for VPC where the folder came from. Not even if
} it is a folder on a NT server, made visible on the Mac through the net
} and then made visible in VPC through some VPC feature which you did not
} really explain.
VPC has a 'share folders' option. You can set local Mac folders up to
share [like I did above with my S: drive] as well as have it automatically
share network mounts that the Mac is using. Eg, when I boot my Mac, I have
it set to mount a volume simply called, "E" which is an NT 4.0 NTFS SMB
shared directory. My Mac can read and write to this partition fine, and
when running Windows 2000 in VPC, using the windows version of fshare, my
win2k VPC can see the SMB share just fine as well.
I'm not sure if this will help, but here is my autoexec.bat:
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@echo off
SET dosdir=C:\FDOS
set PATH=%dosdir%\bin
set NLSPATH=%dosdir%\NLS
set HELPPATH=%dosdir%\HELP
set temp=%dosdir%\temp
set tmp=%dosdir%\temp
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330
ShsuCDhd /QQ /F:C:\FDBOOTCD.ISO
ShsuCDX /Q /D:?FDCD0001 /D:?FDCD0002 /D:?FDCD0003 /D:?SHSU-CDH,R
LH DISPLAY CON=(EGA,,1)
MODE CON CP PREP=((858) %dosdir%\cpi\EGA.CPX)
MODE CON CP SEL=858
REM DEVLOAD /Q /H C:\FDOS\bin\atapicdd.sys /D:FDCD0001
echo type HELP to get support on commands and navigation
echo.
echo Welcome to FreeDOS
echo.
mouse
C:\FDOS\fshare.exe
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I am sending this reply to the list, as per your request [which i
snipped].
If there is further info you need, please let me know.
Thanks for your help!
/vjl/
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