VirtualPC and win3.1 Network connection. Help?

[DaveWin31]

Hi All,

I have W2K-Pro running VirtualPC 2004 SP1.

I have DOS 6.22 and win3.1 as a VM and all works fine with Shared Folders etc.

I have followed the VPC Help system and it takes me around in circles. I have setup the VM-Settings for "Network Adapters:1" but do not know where to go from there.

Can someone please explain how to setup win3.1 so that it can see the other computers on the network?

Thanks

Dave

[submix8c]

Haven't fiddled with this for a while, but utilizing the Microsoft Loopback Adapter (can't remember where you install it from; think it's part of VPC) and bridging it with the LAN NIC (specify the Bridge in the VM Settings) then installing LANMAN to the running VM (can't remember where it is, but it's on MS' FTP site) using the DC21X4 driver (available from Intel?) that you gain access to the Local Area Network. Of course, you have to set up everything correctly in the Virtual DOS/Windows.

Sorry for no more specifics, but as I said it's been a while. Heck, I could even print to my locally attached printer! This is only a rough outline (from memory) and done on Server2k3, so not sure whether Win2k will do this (maybe not).

BTW, took a while before I figured it out (on my PC), but it worked. I also assume you have more than one NIC (one for the LAN and one for the Internet). This is how you can access the Internet as well (via Internet Connection Sharing). Go here -

http://labmice.techtarget.com/networking/ics.htm

for ICS (and other info) for Win2k.

Note - after doing a search, I found that Win2k does not have Network Bridge (xp and up only) but if you go here -

http://www.ntkernel.com/w&p.php?id=20

there is a freeware Bridging software that may work.

HTH, good luck, and plan on spending some time reading and testing.

p.s. AFAIK, Win3.1 doesn't have Networking but the LanManager stuff is an add-on to bring it up to Win3.11 (WFW) capability. And you must be playing around with this old stuff (kind of like I was).