Dosemu with multiple users

# 5 Dosemu with multiple users

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## 5.1 Can I use dosemu on a multi-user system?

Corey Sweeney (`corey@amiganet.xnet.com`) reported (12/8/93) that

If you are running dosemu on a system in which more then one person may want to run dosemu, then you may want to change the directory of your hard drive image. Currently in the `/etc/dosemu.conf` file there exists the line saying that the hard drive image is "hdimage". If you change this to `/var/lib/dosemu/hdimage` then people do not have to worry about what directory they are in when they run dosemu, and hdimage does not have to be moved each time you upgrade to the next patch level.

If you do do this for multi-user dosemu, then you will want to make the hdimage in `/var/lib/dosemu` read-only for everyone but the dosemu administrator.

Note that you can use the new emufs.sys thing to mount a "public" directory and/or a "private" directory (a sub-directory in each person's home directory).

`[`Note: Users may also create a personal configuration file named `˜/.dosrc` (same format as `/etc/dosemu.conf`) to run their own copy of dos.]

## 5.2 How do I get Netware access from dosemu?

James B. MacLean (jmaclean@fox.nstn.ns.ca) reported (6/13/94) that

Dosemu now supports pdipx (an IPX over pktdrvr) and pdether (uses Novell's MLID spec) to access Novell LAN's via the built in packet driver. The packet driver sits at interrupt 0x60, and abids by the normal paket driver rules. That said, beware of trying any DOS TCP/IP just yet. To use Netware, simply:

       1) Compile support for your NIC into the kernel.
       2) Boot dosemu.
       3) Run ./commands/pdipx.
       4) Run netx or whatever you use.

If you need special access to your NIC, read on. By default dosemu will not get interrupts from the kernel. That said, if you'd like to give your NIC to dosemu for it to control, maybe for access to Netware on the network through a NETX client, I do have a driver (Silly Interrupt Generator) to put in the kernel that any program, like dosemu can use to get at the interrupt for your NIC. I use it in DOSEMU to access a Novell Lite network in the past until the packet driver existed.

Any interested parties should E-mail me (`jmaclean@fox.nstn.ns.ca`) and I'll pass along some directions.

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