Ok, I got a bit confuzzled. I was following the instructions on a certain web site that seemed to indicate that the MS networking client was built in, but clearly it isn’t.
As always happens, soon after asking for help the answer lands on me lol. Sorry! From: Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2022 2:04 AM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Need help with networking On 6/17/2022 9:34 PM, dogwallop1...@gmail.com <mailto:dogwallop1...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi all, brand spanking new to this mailing list, and I’m just setting up FreeDOS in a VMWare machine. I would very much like to get the networking setup so that I can create shares to be able to exchange files with the host machine, but for some reason ‘net’ and related commands don’t seem to be present. I’ve installed all of the network options from the CD, and it connects to the network just fine. I can use lynx to do some very crude browsing, so there is connectivity there, so I must be missing something here. Well, first of all, connecting to the Internet via TCP is not "connecting to the network". How to do that, so you can access shares, well, that depends on a lot of different things. For one, what is your VM host network and what kind of network shares are you trying to access. There is certainly no Microsoft "net" command with FreeDOS, though I am not sure if there is such a tool with any Samba client included. Also, most likely you can connect with any such Samba client only to SMB 1.x enabled hosts, and that is for years now usually disabled on modern hosts due to vulnerabilities.. Ralf
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