no net command in freedos

[paparucino]

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

[Perryg]

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

[socratis]

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)

[paparucino]

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

[mpack]

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.