vDos And Samba Shares

[nmcs]

Has anyone got any experience using vDos to access Samba shares on a Linux server?

[andersostling]

I do it on the test rigg that I have setup. Samba on Ubuntu 20.04 as fileserver. The DOS app and data is stored on a share \SYS. I have mapped the vDOS path like this

USE F: \\hp-fssrv\SYS
CALL F:\ORDER.BAT
EXIT

The file ORDER.BAT (is also run from 32-bit NTVDM clients) looks like this

set path=C:\RUTINER;C:\BATCH;%PATH%
donkey
f:\rutiner\keybsw.com
f:
cd \order
1aorder

The directories C:\BATCH and RUTINER is actual directories on the 32-bit clients. On vDOS I simply copied these directories to the C:vDOS directory. There may be other ways of solving this, but for now it works fine.

This is an Windows Domain with a Windows Server 2019 as DC for the client(s) and fileserver. All systems are virtualized and run on top of an Ubuntu Server using KVM and Libvirt.

[Jos]

I guess donkey and keybsw won’t do anything in vDos but consume memory.

You might have a look at www.vdos.info/faqs.html - Advanced - A portable DOS application. To get rid of vDos.exe copies and startup files at workstations.

Jos

[andersostling]

Donkey is a DOS app that maninpulates the numeric keyboard in a strange but unkown way. Keybsw is for setting the keyboard to swedish layout. I will experiment to run the app without these two com files later today. And I will look at the FAQ that you mention!

[Jos]

The 'vDos keyboard' is that of Windows. Would already be set to Swedish, and those programs will use methods that are simply ignored by vDos.

Jos