Windows for Workgroups 3.1 and FTP System's TCP/IP Stack (99736)
This article was previously published under Q99736
SUMMARY
FTP Systems makes a TCP/IP stack called PC/TCP version 2.2 for
MS-DOS-based clients. PC/TCP can run on Windows for Workgroups 3.1 as
a second stack by using the PC-210 kernel over a NDIS driver. FTP has
written two additional VxDs to support their stack on WfW machines;
WFWFTP.386 and VPCTCP.386.
The WFWFTP.386 VxD corrects problems when attempting to access network
drives from a PC that is running both WfW and InterDrive. More precisely,
under WfW when MS-DOS attempts to find_next_ file (Interrupt 21H,
function 12H) in a directory wildcard search on a redirected drive, WfW
attempts to do the search using its VREDIR.386.
The VREDIR.386 cannot complete the directory search function call and
returns a -1 (failure) directly to MS-DOS. As a result, the InterDrive
redir never gets a chance to attempt the operation and the directories
appear empty for the network drives redirected with InterDrive. This
has been confirmed by FTP Systems.
PC/TCP version 2.2 has the ability to map NetBIOS names to IP addresses,
and so can be used in a routed network, and works with MS ROUTER.
| Modification Type: |
Major |
Last Reviewed: |
7/30/2001 |
| Keywords: |
kbnetwork KB99736 |
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