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- From: timiller@iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller)
- Subject: Try this with LANTastic
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:46:18 GMT
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-
- I was given a little network for christmas to link a couple of machines
- up in my house. I was led to believe that the software would work with OS/2
- (in fact, it was supposed to be OS/2 software, or so I thought). It turned
- out that it was just for DOS, but would work with OS/2 LAN manager. I
- couldn't afford to buy that, so I messed with my OS/2 DOS until I got it to
- work. It had to work as a server (peer), because it was the most powerful
- computer (why would I want the most powerful computer to run DOS?) in the
- house. It works now, and I though that what I did might help with the
- LANtastic problem, too...
- BTW, the software I got is called SilverNET, and it has many basic peer
- to peer functions built in like chat, email, massaging and the other basic
- stuff.
-
- Here's what I did...
-
- (most of this stuff is the same as Artisoft tells people to do)
-
- Format a disk from the DOS prompt with the /s parameter (I did this in true
- DOS 5.0 as did the people at Artisoft).
-
- Create a config.sys file on the boot diskette with these statements:
- DEVICE=FSFILTER.SYS
- FILES=50
- BUFFERS=30
- LASTDRIVE=Z
-
- Create an Autoexec.bat file with the following lines:
- PATH=A:\<net path>;C:\DOS;C:\
- C:
- <name of file to start network>
-
- Copy the FSFILTER.SYS to the boot disk from the C:\OS2\MDOS directory.
- The files on the boot disk should be:
- COMMAND.COM
- AUTOEXEC.BAT
- CONFIG.SYS
- FSFILTER.SYS
-
- Next, INSTALL YOUR NETWORK ON THE A: DRIVE! I'm not sure if this is
- possible with LANtastic, but I could do it with SilverNET. This lets you
- get around the problem of direct disk access somehow (I'm not sure how, but
- it worked for me).
-
- AFTER the network stuff is installed on the A: drive, create a boot image of
- the diskette by typing:
- VMDISK A: C:\DOS\DOS_BOOT.IMG
-
- Next, create the icon for this (I'm sure people know how to do this). Make
- sure to go to the "SESSION" page and change the settings. In the "Value"
- field, type:
-
- C:\DOS\DOS_BOOT.IMG
-
- Save this, and exit. Then I think you're done.
- I can't garauntee that this will work for LANtastic owners, or anybody else
- for that matter. It works with my peer, so I think it should work with
- other's, too. If you have any comments, please feel free to email me. I'd
- like to know if this works for other people.
-
- Timothy Miller
-
-