Question MS-DOS File Server - Lan Manager

[aoresteen]

Back in the late 80's - early 90's my company had a few file servers for MS-DOS files and IIRC we used Lan Manger Client for DOS to access the files. I would like to build an MS-DOS file server to hold about 3,000 DOS files. I have 3 clinet MS-DOS computers that will need to access the server, I an not sure just what software is needed to build the server box. The server & client machines will NOT be connected to the internet.

For Lan Manager I think it would have to be OS/2 1,3 ish. While I used OS/2 a lot back in the day, I never build an OS/2 server. My thoughts are to use a Pentium CPU Socket 7 mobo, 233MHz CPU, 128MB or 256MB RAM., and a 40mb data drive.

Any Ideas on building the server? Any other server software that has an MS-DOS client?


Thanks!

 

[kerberos_20]

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/how-to-run-a-dos-based-web-server
maybe this will help?

btw dos and os/2 are two different operating systems
https://winworldpc.com/product/lan-manager/2x

 

[TerryLaze]

Look into freedos, they have integrated network tools and you could run servers on it, webserver is an option but I guess ftp would be probably easier on the client systems?!
Also as long as the server system follows the protocols that the dos clients can run it doesn't need to be a dos era PC, you can run a linux file server on any hardware and have dos connect to it via ftp or whatever you can make them support.

 

[aoresteen]

rating systems

btw dos and os/2 are two different operating systems
https://winworldpc.com/product/lan-manager/2x

Yes I know that they are different. I used OS/2 1.2 through Warp 4 and MS-DOS 2.0 through PC-DOS 7 Release 1.


What I am trying to do is to set up a FILE server to host regular MS-DOS files (not a web server) so that an MS-DOS/PC-DOS client can access MS-DOS files.

 

[kerberos_20]

Yes I know that they are different. I used OS/2 1.2 through Warp 4 and MS-DOS 2.0 through PC-DOS 7 Release 1.


What I am trying to do is to set up a FILE server to host regular MS-DOS files (not a web server) so that an MS-DOS/PC-DOS client can access MS-DOS files.

https://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_FTPSrv.html

 

[aoresteen]

Thanks all!

I will look at native DOS servers but I've decided to try to build a MS LAN Server 2.2a box. Consider this thread closed.