Subj : Re: Retro virtualization platform?
To   : acn
From : deon
Date : Sat Jan 08 2022 00:43:07

  Re: Re: Retro virtualization platform?
  By: acn to deon on Fri Jan 07 2022 10:49 am

 > But I found a "unlimited server and client" license for 5.1 on the
 > web, so I'm fine at the moment :)

Do you remember where ;) I'm wondering if they would have a NW 4 license - or I might try 5.1 as well.

Do you have a DOS machine talking to NW5 using TCP/IP?

 > d> If I could get NFS working on NW 4, I'd probably use it more.
 >
 > ;-) Maybe using FTP could be worth a look? I don't know what desktop   environment you're using, but sometimes 'mounting' a FTP server
 > is possible.

Hmm, maybe.

My working environment is CLI - and I use automount a lot. I've never tried mounting with other protocols other than NFS.

I was doing a google search today, and found a german website with a lot of utilities - one that interested me was an RSYNC NLM. That would work as well for me.

I just want to use my linux tools "diff", "vi", etc to figure out which is my good "bat files" and delete the excess.

 > d> I think I had myO5D USB to serial adapter, where the DOS machine
 > d> talks to the ESXi serial port, and the USB/serial dongle connect to
 > d> it, back to another VM running tcpser. (Now I have that USB/serial
 > d> dongle in a Pi running TCPser.)
 >
 > I fail to understand that setup, sorry.

 > Did you manage it so that DOS talks to COM1: (in DOS) and the data is
 > coming out of an USB-to-serial adapter?

So yes. My ESXi host has a serial port, which I gave to DOS and it used it as COM1. So anything going to the DOS's COM1, came out of the ESXi host's serial port.

Connected to that serial port, was a USB->Serial (DB9) cable. Thus the Serial side was connected to the ESXi's host serial port, and the USB side also connected to the same ESXi host USB interface. I gave that USB device to another VM, running linux and TCPser. (I actually did it with a Pi first...)

So DOS could talk to Linux via a serial connection, on the same host, but 2 different VMs. TCPser, via a "phone number" could connect to any host, so my DOS machine (running FrontDoor) could dial up my fidohub (running QICO) and transfer mail/files.

 > Have a nice weekend!

You to!


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