Hello Sean.



 SD> Hello Torsten,

 SD> 08 Dec 18 01:05 at you wrote to Marc Lewis:
 TB> Anyway, it is a OS/2 problem, not a windows problem. ;-)
 SD> Netdrive with the SMB plugin works great with Win 7 through 10 in
 SD> my  experience.

In fact, I dug up my copy of Netdrive and updated it Saturday past. This
has provided me with a workaround, and a darn good one at that.  The system
is slightly complicated with NewsGate running on a 32bit Windows 7 machine.
 What I did is move my outbound Fido mail and all the associated semaphore
directories, etc. to my NFS. Now OS/2 can readily talk to it w/no problems.
NewsGate on the W7 machine can also talk to the NFS by default AND it can,
for some reason, write (but not read) to the toss directory on the OS/2
machine. This massive rearrangement of directory locations took a few hours
to work out, with LOTS of batch and .cmd file alterations to compensate for
the new drive letter added. (Good old DOS GSAR (general search and replace)
was a tremendous time saver, going into each and every .bat, .cmd and ,cfg
file on the BBS and IRex machines.

Previously, NewsGate was running on a 32bit XP machine, but I was really
concerned about its age and vulnerability to various and sundry attacks. 
The NewsGate batch file ran flawlessly on it... The very same batch file
had to be fully altered to make every executable in the file have a fully
qualified path, as the .bat file running under a .PIF simply would not
inherit the system path properly.  Once each and every call to an
executable was written out with its full path the system functioned
properly.

All well and good now!  Yay!

Best regards,
Marc

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