Connect DOS to Mint

[Dreamofgilgamesh]

Dear group, I hope you can help me out with this one. I've been playing with an old 90's vintage PC that i've installed DOS 6.2 on. I'm attempting to connect it to my Linux PC and i'm almost there.

I can ping my Linux box and my Wife and Daughter's Window 7 boxes. I can ping a web site and get its I.P address back. I can also ping the DOS box from the other PC's.
However, I can't see the DOS PC from any of the other PC's. I can however see it listed in my router as "unknown" Any idea on how i can make the DOS PC visible at all.
I have an idea it's something to do with a "NET" command. If i type C:\NET VIEW \\MARTIN-LINUX on my DOS PC it returns "SHARED RESOURCES AT \\MARTIN-LINUX and then shows a shared folder i made. But how do i see the contents of the folder and share them?

Any help will be gratefully received.

Thanks

[BigEasy]

From DOS side it is simple:

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C:\>net use f: \\MARTIN-LINUX\SHARE
C:\>dir f:

Make Linux folder shared is simple too, but for Windows network...

[AlbertP]

I can however see it listed in my router as "unknown" Any idea on how i can make the DOS PC visible at all.
I have an idea it's something to do with a "NET" command.

Windows computers make their name known to others in the network using the WINS service. On Mint, the nmbd daemon runs by default for the same purpose.
What I can find on the MS-DOS client, is that it only queries names of other computers with WINS, it does not register its own name. This may explain why the DOS computer is an unknown device in your router. (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc750214.aspx)

[Dreamofgilgamesh]

Oh thank you so much chaps, it's getting late now but I'll try that tomorrow and let you know how it goes.

[phd21]

Hi "Dreamofgilgamesh",

I just read your post and the good replies to it. Here are my thoughts on this as well.

If you can provide more information on this DOS computer's hardware, that would help, like system memory (RAM), graphics card (and its memory), CPU processor, hard drive size, etc... You might even be able to use a Linux OS, maybe even Linux Mint Xfce, instead of DOS.

You can easily run DOS programs in Linux Mint using the DOS emulator, "dosemu', which is available in the Software Manager or Synaptic Package Manager (SPM), and there is "dosfstools", "mtools".

Hope this helps ...

[Dreamofgilgamesh]

Thanks chaps, i gave your advice a go and it works a treat.