On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 09:50:30AM +0200, czezz wrote: > Hi, > thank you all for answers. > > @Ged and Neal, > yes - I considered using DOSBox and/or DOSEMU. This is solution that I will > keep away from. > The true is that with DOSBox I dont even need to care about network > configuration and there is enough memory to run required application. > The thing is that my Clipper/dBase application is located on Linux server and > shared with SAMBA. > 8 nodes (PCs/workstations) are connected to that share. If I use DOSbox, then > DOSbox node will always overwrite its changes over dBase/database. Which will > erase changes done by other nodes. > > VirtualBox: as I have written - I have 8 nodes (PCs/workstations). Each of > them needs to communicate to Linux/Samba server where application is shared. > DOS must have samba client. VB wont help that way. > However I do my tests with FreeDOS inside of VirtualBox. > > @Marc - yes, Im playing around that. > So far, on the FreeDOS I have managed to get 485KB of free conventional > memory. Application I need to run requires little bit above 500KB. > MS Client take most of it... nightmare :( > > One last chance might be NFS client for DOS... > But I was just hoping that there is some old/discontinued Samba project for > DOS.
Is mars_nwe still alive? The Novell client uses less memory than the MSClient thingy. Volker -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen http://www.sernet.de, mailto:kont...@sernet.de -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
