First post, by Subjunctive
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I put together a nice little MS-DOS rig and have been steadily improving it. P-133, 16 MB, S3 Virge, SB16, GUS ... and an Intel EtherExpress 16 NIC.
In my previous living situation, I had all my computers connected to my AT&T DSL modem, and I used NWLink (IPX/SPX) from the old Microsoft Network Client to connect from the DOS machine to a share on a Windows XP machine. It worked fantastically for transferring files.
My situation has changed, however, and now I have those computers connected to a Linksys router, which itself is connected to a NIC on a third computer; that NIC shares out, via Internet Connection Sharing, my landlord's wireless.
For some reason I can't connect to the share anymore. That's fine, I thought, maybe the router just doesn't like something about IPX (not sure what, since that's not even a routed protocol). So I added TCP/IP to the MS client's installed protocols on the DOS machine, confirmed that both the DOS and XP machines could ping each other over the router LAN, and tried to access the share again. It keeps telling me "Access Denied", and what I've tried so far on the XP machine - opening up share/NTFS wide open, enabling the Guest account, trying a few Group Policy settings related to SMB security - hasn't had an effect.
So, I'd like to ask the following:
- Anything obvious that I've missed?
- Am I going about this whole thing the wrong way? How would you network a DOS 6.22 machine?