Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:16172 comp.unix.questions:7441 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!focsys!larry From: larry@focsys.UUCP (Larry Williamson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.questions Subject: Network (ftp) access to ms-dos hard disks ?? Keywords: remote access to msdos disk, ethernet, polling Message-ID: <179@focsys.UUCP> Date: 6 Jun 88 17:57:16 GMT Reply-To: larry@focsys.UUCP (Larry Williamson) Distribution: na Organization: Focus Automation Systems Inc. Waterloo, Ontario. Lines: 43 I need to know if it is possible to access the hard disks on a ms-dos machine that is on a network of Unix and msdos machines. The dos disk is to be accessed while the dos machine is busy with other work. The dos machine is running a dedicated application (that we wrote). The dos machine is reading data from a number of input devices and archiving this data to a unix file system. A unix workstation is processing this data and at random intervals, data is sent to a dos machine for output. The input and output dos machines may or may not be the same. The input data may or may not ever be output. All input data will be put on a unix file system. Getting the data to the Unix file system seems easy enough. Its the other direction that seems a little difficult. The problem: To get the data to the dos hard disk. Will I have to set up the dos machines to poll the unix workstations for data? I would rather have the unix station dump the data to the dos hard disk and the dos machine would then only poll its own hard disk for the existance of the data. I assume that I will need some advanced network software. I expect to use something like ftp, tcp/ip, and whatever else is necessary. What do I need to run on the dos end? Is the Netbios software necessary? I've done a bit of research on this but it seems that all the books that I've seen assume you are setting up a Novell network. And of course, they answer the questions you might have in such a situation. These books have been no help to me. I have not been able to get a straight answer from anyone I've talked to recently about this. The salesmen promise you anything. The technical people that I know have never done this, so they are not sure. -- Larry Williamson Focus Automation Systems UUCP: watmath!focsys!larry 608 Weber St. N, Waterloo, Ontario N2V 1K4 +1 519 746 4918