Subj : Files on LAN. To : mark lewis From : Gerald Miller Date : Sun Jul 04 2004 09:05 am Hello Mark, Responding to a post in the LAN area: On Saturday July 03 2004 at 15:28, Mark Lewis [1:3634/12] wrote to Gerald Miller, about: Files on LAN. GM>> Okay, so I'm a little behind the times. I've never had a GM>> strong desire to run my (DOS) Fidonet system in a GM>> multitasking environment until now. The purpose of GM>> getting the WfWg system on the network was to provide a GM>> means to transfer all my (DOS) Fidonet over to my W98SE GM>> system #_WITHOUT_# having to copy everything onto floppy GM>> diskettes (or buy a USB card to plug in my external CD GM>> burner). ML> ahhh... understood... you want to move the stuff without having to ML> reinstall it or having to resort to floppy, zip or cd to move it... That's right! ML> IIRC, you use the file manager (fileman) to create the mappings from ML> within WFWG... i also recall loading the networking stuffs before WFWG ML> and manually (or in a bat file) using the "net use" stuff to map the ML> drives in... Not sure about fileman -- I'll check it out after I take FrontDoor offline. There is only one line in my Autoexec.bat that loads the network.... C:\Windows\net start As far as "net use" goes, I haven't tried using it but the online help displays: === Begin cut: C:\Windows\NET.TXT === Connects or disconnects your computer from a shared resource or displays information about your connections. NET USE [drive: | *] [\\computer\directory [password | ?]] [/PERSISTENT:YES | NO] [/SAVEPW:NO] [/YES] [/NO] NET USE [port:] [\\computer\printer [password | ?]] [/PERSISTENT:YES | NO] [/SAVEPW:NO] [/YES] [/NO] NET USE drive: | \\computer\directory /DELETE [/YES] NET USE port: | \\computer\printer /DELETE [/YES] NET USE * /DELETE [/YES] NET USE /PERSISTENT:YES | NO | LIST | SAVE | CLEAR [/YES] [/NO] NET USE drive: | * /HOME drive Specifies the drive letter you assign to a shared directory. * Specifies the next available drive letter. If used with /DELETE, specifies to disconnect all of your connections. port Specifies the parallel (LPT) port name you assign to a shared printer. computer Specifies the name of the computer sharing the resource. directory Specifies the name of the shared directory. printer Specifies the name of the shared printer. password Specifies the password for the shared resource, if any. ? Specifies that you want to be prompted for the password of the shared resource. You don't need to use this option unless the password is optional. /PERSISTENT Specifies which connections should be restored the next time you log on to the network. It must be followed by one of the values below: YES Specifies that the connection you are making and any subsequent connections should be persistent. NO Specifies that the connection you are making and any subsequent connections should not be persistent. LIST Lists your persistent connections. SAVE Specifies that all current connections should be persistent. CLEAR Clears your persistent connections. /SAVEPW:NO Specifies that the password you type should not be saved in your password-list file. You need to retype the password the next time you connect to this resource. /YES Carries out the NET USE command without first prompting you to provide information or confirm actions. /DELETE Breaks the specified connection to a shared resource. /NO Carries out the NET USE command, responding with NO automatically when you are prompted to confirm actions. /HOME Makes a connection to your HOME directory if one is specified in your LAN Manager or Windows NT user account. To list all of your connections, type NET USE without options. To see this information one screen at a time, type the following at the command prompt: NET USE /? | MORE or NET HELP USE | MORE === End cut: C:\Windows\NET.TXT === I put a "C:\Windows\net use" line in my WIN.BTM and I'll see what happens with it, the next time I run WfW. ML> heck, for that matter, you should just be able to use the networking ML> stuffs without having to get a GUI involved at all... i have had a DOS ML> peer machine here as well as having also added server stuff to it to ML> make a DOS peer server... however, that is/was all it would do due to ML> memory constraints and that pesky 640k barrier... I believe I tried MSLANMAN and finally gave up -- as archaic as WfWg311 is, it manages the system resources much better... ML> [trim] GM>> Well, I've been somewhat successful in mapping the network GM>> drives on the XPP and W98SE boxes, but mapping the WfWg GM>> network drive eludes me (that's why I'm here, asking all GM>> these questions of Everyone)... ML> see above about fileman for mapping drive letters ;) Okay. GM>> P.S. Send me an email message to my W98SE box please -- I'd GM>> like to take advantage of your knowledge in setting up GM>> FrontDoor (with 4DOS command processor) with W98SE. ML> we can do this in any of several echos... the FDECHO is one of the ML> first that comes to mind... there's also the 4DOS echo and possibly it ML> would even fly in the WIN95 echo... Okay, but I'm not that ready for it yet... Cheers ... Gerald .... After two days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse. --- GoldED+/DPMI32 v1.1.5-040330 [msg of Sunday July 04 2004] * Origin: Anything worth working hard for is worth keeping. (1:342/512) .