Re: [Freedos-user] Copy from network drive

2012-12-11 Thread dmccunney
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote: > I hesitate to go for Linux/Samba on the server, firstly because > I'm a FreeDOS fan, and secondly because I've been told that a > Samba server is not easy to set up. Samba servers aren't that hard to set up, and it would

Re: [Freedos-user] Copy from network drive

2012-12-11 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
> From: Bernd Blaauw > What's running? SMB using MS-Client? NFS using something? I > guess you used shares mapped to driveletters. The SHARE program > might solve your issue. Otherwise the server perhaps has > issues, instead of the clients. Sorry, I forgot to say. Here are the answers: - It's

Re: [Freedos-user] Copy from network drive

2012-12-11 Thread Bret Johnson
> The issue here appears to be in the network layer, and will likely > bite with XCOPY as well as COPY. I think the prior suggestion of > loading SHARE amy be the right answer. The fact that file managers work when COPY doesn't tells me that you can't just assume it's a network problem. SHARE m

Re: [Freedos-user] Copy from network drive

2012-12-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > We are facing a difficulty with the 'copy' command in the > network of our Health Center. Have you tried smbclient? It accesses Samba / Windows shares in the same style as "ftp" accesses FTP servers. So there is no drive letter but also no big driver to have around. Might work more reliabl

Re: [Freedos-user] Copy from network drive

2012-12-11 Thread dmccunney
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Bret Johnson wrote: > Do the problems also happen with MS-DOS on the client, or "plain" FreeDOS > (without 4DOS) on the client? Also, does XCOPY work even if COPY doesn't > (don't know if 4DOS even has an XCOPY)? 4DOS is a drop in replacement for COMMAND.COM.

Re: [Freedos-user] Copy from network drive

2012-12-11 Thread Bret Johnson
Do the problems also happen with MS-DOS on the client, or "plain" FreeDOS (without 4DOS) on the client? Also, does XCOPY work even if COPY doesn't (don't know if 4DOS even has an XCOPY)? I'm not necessarily suggesting any of these as a "permanent" solution (though they could be), but simply tr

Re: [Freedos-user] Copy from network drive

2012-12-11 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 11-12-2012 23:26, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros schreef: > Hi, > > We are facing a difficulty with the 'copy' command in the > network of our Health Center. What's running? SMB using MS-Client? NFS using something? I guess you used shares mapped to driveletters. The SHARE program might solv

Re: [Freedos-user] Copy from network drive

2012-12-11 Thread Chris Evans
I have found that a lock violation means you don't have sharing installed I think, On Tuesday, December 11, 2012, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote: > Hi, > > We are facing a difficulty with the 'copy' command in the > network of our Health Center. > > We occasionally need to copy files fr

[Freedos-user] Copy from network drive

2012-12-11 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi, We are facing a difficulty with the 'copy' command in the network of our Health Center. We occasionally need to copy files from the server to the local disks of client machines. I have been doing these copies by means of file managers such as Navigator, NDN or Connect, and it is straightforw

Re: [Freedos-user] Errorlevels

2012-12-11 Thread Jim Hall
On Thursday, November 29, 2012, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Op 29-11-2012 2:10, bruce.bowman tds.net schreef: > > Is there a comprehensive manual or wiki available for FreeDOS commands > > other than what's available at http://help.fdos.org/en/index.htm ? > > Unlikely, except for the documentation belon