First post, by mbbrutman
mTCP NetDrive is a DOS device driver that allows you to access a remote disk image hosted by another machine as though it was a local device with an assigned drive letter. The remote disk image can be a floppy disk image or a hard drive image.
Use it to:
- Add temporary extra space to a DOS machine.
- Mount your library of floppy images directly on your DOS machine.
- Create a repository of utilities or files that all of your DOS machines can share.
- Provide a quick and easy backup target for Xcopy or Zip.
- Add hard drive-like storage to machines that don’t have a hard drive.
Features:
- A single device driver works with all versions of DOS starting with DOS 2.0.
- It uses less than 6KB of RAM. (Add another 5 to 10kB depending on your Ethernet card.)
- DOS 3.31 and up can use remote images up to 2GB in size. (Earlier versions of DOS are limited to 32 MB because they use FAT12 or original FAT16.)
- The server runs on Windows (10 or 11) or Linux. No special permissions are needed.
- The protocol uses UDP so you can use it on your private network or across the Internet. (Yep - start your own cloud storage business for DOS PCs!)
- Network drives are standard raw disk images that can be manipulated using Linux tools.
If you use mTCP today it is as simple as installing the device driver and then running a command line program to attach or detach the remote storage.
Details and downloads can be found at http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_NetDrive.html.