How to network in DOS?

[TakedownCA]

I have two Win2K computers networked via router that share files using NetBEUI. I want to be able to make a Ghost image of one computer's drive and store it on the other computer. I've done this before using Netware, but that was at work. No Novell to be found here. Is there a way I can network the two computers using a DOS boot disk? The computer I want to run Ghost on is a laptop using a Realtek 8139 network card. My knowledge of networking is pretty limited, so I don't know where to start. Thanks for any help.

 

[Techwhore]

You'll need Ghost Enterprise to do this... i believe it'll also make a boot disk for you that will of course have network support.

 

[adlep]

Well if u have win2k server or nt 4.0 server there is a way to make a network/dos boot disks off them. If u dont, the u would have to custom make one. Standart win 98 boot disk will do fine+ DOS drivers for your NIC card (i hope that the manufacturer has one). You can edit the autoexec.bat so the driver will load automatically or if u dont know how to do it, just manually start the dos drivers off your boot disk. Then there is a matter of knowing where the ghost share is on your network. To access it use NET USE command off your dos prompt....(TCP/IP)
Hope it will shine some light
Regards,
Adlep

P.S. If u have a router and NETBEUI then you may have a problem cause NetBEUI is not routable...

 

[Kewlb]

if you have access to a winnt machine make a network install floppy (or you can download the dos network client) make sure to include the tcp/ip and netbios protocols (also make sure himem.sys and emm386 are on the disk) create the disk and make sure that himem.sys gets loaded (else you will run out of memory space when loading the tcp/ip stack) find the driver disk for your nick and locate the "ndis" driver (might also be called the dos driver) and put that on the disk and change the protocol.ini file to point to the location of the new driver on the disk, boot and you will be able to issue net commands like:

net use f: \\server\share to map drives, once you have a drive mapped its all gravy.. If you need further help I can be contacted via AIM (Kewlb19) or e-mail: brianc@ieee.org