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Hi guys,
Ive installed freedos as guest in a linux machine. I created a shared connection between linux and freedos. the popup window in the shared options says: use "net...." . If I try to use the net command in freedos I get "net command not found" so there is no way to share the two machines files.
Any idea?

Thank you in advance

Impossible to tell without the full command but even that may not help since you state the guest says "command not found" http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/ ... S_complete

Why does the lack of a command in a specific OS mean that it's a VirtualBox issue? VirtualBox provides the "hardware", not the OS that is running on top of the hardware. Having said that, there are a couple of FAQs that you can try:

• Set up a DOS VM with networking (and shared folders).
• Set up a (Free)DOS VM with networking (and shared folders)

What I read in vbox shared windows is: Lists all shared folder accessible to this machine. Use 'net x: \\vboxsvr\share' to access a shared folder form DOS-like OS or .....(linux mount)'.
This said could someone explain to me why should I use other commands and why the missing of net is not a freedos problem?

Thank you in advance
papa

paparucino wrote:could someone explain ... why the missing of net is not a freedos problem?

It IS a FreeDOS problem. It just isn't a VirtualBox problem, and these are the VirtualBox forums.

Your FreeDOS question would be the same if the FreeDOS image was installed on another VM platform or on a physical PC. That means that being inside a VirtualBox VM has no bearing on the question.

In fact I don't believe you even have a FreeDOS problem, I suspect that you probably just don't know how to set the DOS search path properly. However, teaching you to use FreeDOS is a tad beyond the scope of this website, so you really ought to ask your questions on a FreeDOS site.