XP PC can't read share on DOS PC

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Jake

Hi

I have a fairly straightforward TCP/IP peer-to-peer network consisting of 6
x MS DOS 6.2 PCs, various Win9x, and a Win XP Pro machine.

Everything was running well until the introduction of the XP machine. The
XP machine simply cannot see shares on the DOS machines, even though they
are alive, well, and being read from / written to by other PCs on the same
network.

If I type NET VIEW from a DOS prompt in XP I am shown a list of the hosts
that it can see on the network, including those running DOS (they're called
CNC1 through CNC6 as it happens). I can't see them in My Network Places.

Drive C on CNC1 through CNC6 is shared without a username or password.

If I try to browse directly to 'c' on, say, CNC6, I get the following
errors:

If I use IP address: \\10.0.11.9\c --> "The network path cannot be found"
If I use host name: \\cnc6\c --> "The network resource type is not correct"

I can ping any of the DOS PCs from the XP machine - no problem there, so it
can't be a TCP/IP related issue.

Any ideas for help gratefully received, especially from those who have come
across this problem before and found a solution to it! MS support site is
no use to me today, I can't find anything relating to this on there.

Cheers

Jake
 
Have you enabled netbios over tcp/ip on that XP. I'm not sure, but you might
need that to access dos shares. Check also share names on those dos machines
(maybe there is net share command). Share names shouldn't be case sensitive,
but surely you have tried to use correct case?
 
Jeffrey Schreiber said:
Did you ever receive a solution from anyone? I am also
experiencing the same problems networking an XP machine
to a Centroid CNC control operating under DOS 6.2. The
DOS machine can see and retrieve files from the XP
machine, but not the other way around.
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Hi

Don't know if you saw my previous post but I managed to solve the problem a
couple of hours later.

If you issue a command line network instruction from a command prompt then
you can map a drive then access it without a problem, i.e.:

C:\>net use q: \\cnc6\c

Works a treat - Explorer in XP can now access network drive Q and read/write
without a problem.

I put it in a batch file that runs when the user logs on to the XP machine
just to make sure.

HTH

Jake
 
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