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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