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Having problems using MS Client 3

New MessageMS Client 3 booting (modified 0 times) Gondola
I got my DOC reformatted with DOS and stuck a bunch of utils on it, including the DOC utils, DOS, edpart, and MS Client 3.
I'm trying to get MS Client 3 working and this is what I'm getting:

It boots, and starts to run the various programs. First, "net initialize". That seems to go great; spits out the information about my NIC (I/O, address, IRQ, make, etc) and says "The command completed successfully."

The next command it executes is netbind.com. This gives me:

MS-DOS Lan Manager v2.1 Netbind
(loooong pause)
Invalid COMMAND.COM
Enter correct name of Command Interpreter (eg, C:\COMMAND.COM)
>>

So I enter in c:©ommand.com, the appropriate shell, and it just keeps telling me it's invalid.
Perhaps my I/O address is conflicting with my card; I had to move the DOC to CC00 because my NIC was D000.

Woops! Just realized that I had changed the wrong jumper.

Ok, rebooted with the right jumper changed (eek!) and now it gets through netbind, umd, tcptsr, tinyrfc, nmtsr, emsbfr,
but then seems to be hanging on "net start".

Ok any idea what could be the problem with "net start"?

I turned off DHCP and coded my IP, gateway, netmask, computername, and a couple other common settings.
It's still hung on "net start"... please post with any ideas.

Gondola

05-09-2000 20:49:12

New MessageRE:MS Client 3 booting (modified 0 times) Gondola
Barring any ideas why "net start" won't, how about recommendations on some DOS-based TCP stacks that will allow me to mount a network drive?
05-10-2000 06:20:28

New MessageRE:MS Client 3 booting (modified 0 times) Gondola
Well, it appears my premise may be flawed. If I do manage to mount a network share and run Windows off of it, Windows itself may not be able to network properly because it won't be able to share the NIC with the DOS-level drivers.

Interesting conundrum..

Any ideas for networking a WSP without an internal hard drive, without Linux?

05-10-2000 06:59:26

New MessageRE:MS Client 3 booting (modified 0 times) Linuxguru
Networking without hard drive: WfW with MSTCP32. I know this is getting nauseating.
05-10-2000 12:07:19

New MessageRE:MS Client 3 booting (modified 0 times) Gondola
Blah. I found another ISA IDE interface, obliterated the end interfaces with a pair of pliers like someone else described doing, and it fits next to my NetGear PCI ethernet card pretty nicely. I'm just gonna do the hard drive thing and forget the DOC.
(Maybe I could stick my swap on there; would it be better performance? hehe)
05-10-2000 15:38:07

New MessageRE:MS Client 3 booting (modified 0 times) Gondola
Update..

Spliced a pigtail power connector that I had from an older system. My hard drive boots from the powersupply on the WSP.
My WSP is completely independent now, except now my IR keyboard/mouse isn't working. I put in batteries I knew work, too.
This happened after I booted with the hard drive off the internal powersupply and shut it down. (The keyboard and mouse worked when I shut it down; I shut it down through Windows; Start->Shut Down.

Any idea what it could be? Sigh. I would've been good to go if not for this stupid problem that came out of nowhere.
If I don't find out off this forum I guess I'll try changing to a different BIOS after I pop out the keyboard/powersupply tabs on the case and get those working.

05-10-2000 17:01:32

New MessageRE:MS Client 3 booting (modified 0 times) Gondola
ROFL! I had reversed the stupid IR cable when I put it back on after splicing the powersupply.
The way the cables were tied together made it "feel" like it went back the other way once it was released from the motherboard power bundle.
05-10-2000 17:07:36

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