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I'm in the process of trying to make the above combination work in
harmony and have run into a slight problem.

In brief - a certain program is required to access data on one of
the servers CD-ROMs, but it does not appear to be network aware.
When executed on another workstation it gives a message to the
effect that it cannot locate the CD-ROM and promptly goes out to
lunch. I assume it's checking for MSCDEX on the workstation and
giving up when it can't find it, or possibly bypassing MSCDEX and
going for the non-existent device driver..

I found a small program called MXSUB by Digital Solutions (Aus),
which appeared to work ok (ie: fooled the program into thinking the
CD-ROM was attached) until I ran Windoze and tried accessing files -
MXSUB gave a message about an 'unsupported call' being made and
froze.

Another program CDSHARE by the same company _appears_ to work, but
I'm hoping to hear from someone else using it without problems
before plonking down the bucks. I spoke to Artisoft (Aus) who
confirm that 'they have heard that it seems to work' but couldn't
give me anything more definite (fair enough).

The setup is 386/SX-25 servers/workstations, LANtastic 4.1,
LANtastic for Windoze, Windoze 3.1, DOS5..

Would greatly appreciate any tips, hints, magic incantations, which
people have used in similar situations.. :-)  My net access is
fairly limited (so mail would probably be the best method - I would
be glad to post a summary) but reply postings will be read and
appreciated. Thanks in advance..

..regards Derek.

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