After reviewing the fact that even earlier versions of Windows have great difficulties accessing shares on Vista machines, I have concluded that the MS-DOS Network Client is going to be a no-go. But if any of you actually has this working with Vista Home from a DOS client on real hardware, then the …

Thanks Mockingbird. Vista Home doesn't have a Local Security Policy tool in Control Panel, but in the Registry I changed HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\LMCompatibilityLevel=3 –> 0, which is "Send LM & NTLM responses" per https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj852207%28v=ws.10%29. …

I'm hoping that someone who uses networking for a game has solved this one. With FreeDOS 1.1 on real hardware, I installed MS-DOS Network Client, which successfully initializes with TCP/IP via DHCP. But when I try to set up access to a share on the LAN with "net use z: \\server\share" and enter the …