Thanks again, Frank:
As I've already written, I myself have investigated the dark rabbit hole of MS-DOS networking for you: http://frantisek.rysanek.sweb.cz/FD_NET.zip Unzip the three directories to your DOS hard drive, take a look at the config.sys suggested, and see if you can get your DOS box to take a breath of your LAN.
As you had suggested, on the FreeDOS PC, in C:\MSNET\ I entered "start".
Get an IP address from DHCP and ping something on the LAN.
Then I could ping from that PC to my printer, Ubuntu PC and Ubuntu laptop.
Chances are that this part will work right off the bat.
It worked fine. I haven't yet tried to do the same from C:\PKTDRV>. And I don't know what MTCPAPPS is for.
I'm fairly confident about the follow-up technologies in Linux (for your printing intermediate box). It doesn't look like a headache to set up, but it may require some tinkering and back-n-forth e-mail communication. If you have time and you're still curious about stuff, you might actually find that tech entertaining.
I appreciate learning basics as I go.
It's not gonna clog your Linux printing setup or swamp your network or anything.
I had worried that the DOS machine on my network, would give easy access from the Internet for gremlins!
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