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setting up a network share between windows 10 and DOS

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PgrAm

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So I have a 386 pc that I wanna have access a folder on my modern win10 PC over LAN, preferably mounted as a drive in DOS. The card in the 386 is a realtek rtl8019as, I downloaded the NDIS2 dos driver for that card and tried to set up Microsoft Network Client on the 386 but I'm totally lost. I installed msclient but it asks me for a password to access the workgroup which has no password, I enter nothing for the password and it says I'm logged on but the other computers on the network aren't listed with the "net view" command, nor is the 386 PC listed on the network from the modern PC. Is there a better way to mount share on DOS? I can't seem to get msclient to work and it takes alot of memory.
 
Ftp transfer would be an easier option using filezilla on win10 as the server and the mTCP ftp client in dos. You can also use the 386 as an ftp server as well.
 
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Run a Windows 9x VM and share a folder with no password from that. Both DOS and Windows 10 can connect to that.

The issue between DOS and Windows 10 is that DOS uses an authentication method called LanManager authentication. That is not secure these days, so that is not enabled in XP or later. It had been one could enable that with a registry setting, but I don't know if that is still available in Windows 10.
 
Absolutely!
But I believe that this does not prevent us from presenting the correct url according to today's data, so that someone can find the thread. At least that was my intend!
 
Here's all known working solutions I've used for this....

1) Use FTPSRV in mTCP on the device that needs xferred to, and then use FileZilla or another FTP program on the Windows 10 machine to xfer files. I do this all the time in Windows, Apple, and Linux.

2) Setup an internal basic FTP Server somewhere - I had a old Netgear WAP/Switch/Router combo that had a USB port and I put a 64GB flash drive on there with my games and software for the vintage PCs and used FTP in the mTCP Suite to access it. IE FTP 192.168.1.1

3) More recently I've been experimenting with making some VirtualBox virtual machines that allow Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and Windows 9x clients to connect to it and download files over the share that way. I've been preferring using Windows 2000 Professional for this as of late.

On as side note, on my Linux Box I was able to create an SMB1 file share siloed specifically to a set group of directories on a secondary EXT4 3TB HDD - I don't remember what specifically I had in there, but I do remember that I had to edit smb.conf and restart services for that specific sandbox. But it worked great, especially on my WFW311 client at the time.
 
I use your 1 proposed way for my ACL-386SX laptop. It work perfect with win10 64bit.
 
I've used XLite FTP Server (portable, single .exe) on Windows 10 to host files - and DOS could access them just fine using the mTCP FTP client.
 
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