Hello all,

I haven't managed to come up with a clean solution for this scenario for a customer.

The customer wants to host his MS DOS Point of Sale System on a Server and have his store client computers (some Windows, some MS DOS) dial up to that server computer, and run the POS Software via dial up.

The first solution I came up with works but its quite crazy. 8 DOS VMWare Virtual Machines sitting in listen mode in PCAnywhere, once client connects (DOS or Windows) it puts at C: prompt, they type app.bat which runs a bat file that maps to the samba share on this Linux Server PC and runs the POS.EXE file.

This works fine - but it could be a nightmare to troubleshoot - I'm using Slackware 12.0.

Any ideas how I could clean this solution up a bit - Ideally I'd just like this BOX to accept dial up (from dos or windows clients) and the samba share gets mounted as a drive letter on the connecting DOS or Windows client and they run from there.

Thanks in advance,
Steve

Please post your thread in only one forum. Posting a single thread in the most relevant forum will make it easier for members to help you and will keep the discussion in one place. This thread is being closed because it is a duplicate.

I selected this thread to close since IMO you are asking a generic question. If this isn't the case then ask a mod to change.

Continue here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ial-up-616049/