I post a question about this every month or two, because so far no one
has been able to come up with a good approach for addressing our
situation.

We have several "DOS 7" machines, which is to say, Windows95 boxes which
boot into non-GUI mode.  In their infinite wisdom, M$ wrote the
networking so that only IPX will load without the GUI.  So, these
machines can map network drives from our NT machines over IPX, but we
don't have any other way to do networking on those machines (no tcp/ip,
for example).

I need to find a way for those machines to talk to a Linux box.  So, it
seems to me, my options include:

-> figuring out a way to add TCP/IP support to the DOS7 machines;

-> figuring out a way to make the DOS boxes talk Novell-style IPX; or,

-> figuring out a way to make Linux talk 95-style IPX.

On the first front (TCP/IP for DOS7), I haven't been able to find a
compatible add-on client.  Caldera claims to have something in the
works, but it doesn't appear to be out yet.

I've tried installing the Novell client on my DOS boxes, but it fails
every time with an "insufficient memory" error (this on a machine with
48 megs of RAM and all the TSR's disabled).  I can't get tech support
from Novell because we don't actually have any Novell servers.

I have mars-nwe working on a couple of Linux boxes, but the DOS boxes
don't recognize them, and others on the list have told me that I must
have a novell-style client on the "other" end for a Linux box to serve
IPX.

Can anyone throw _any_ light on this?

Caldera's DR-DOS might be an option (I think it does TCP/IP but I may be
wrong), but right now I don't have the luxury of a spare machine for
testing a new OS.


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