I'm in a real jam here. I used Norton Ghost to make a ghost image of my work-laptop's hard drive. I wrote the image to another PC on my network, using Netbeui (which is ghost's only networking protocol option for writing the imagine to another machine on the network). Now the laptop is hosed up and I need to overwrite it's hard drive using the image, but you cant ghost over a hard drive while windows is running, and when I boot to DOS, alas, no networking protocols are avaialble, hence ghost becomes useless. I did some digging on the web and downloaded the "Microsoft Network Client 3.0" and found a nice tutorial for setting it up. I installed it and tried to get the laptop using Netbeui from dos. It came damn close but just kept saying "netbeui cannot be activated unless the ndishlp.sys driver is included in the [network card] section of system.ini" Which, I opened the system.ini in question and found the [network card] section and it sure looked like ndishlp.sys was in there. But nothing I tried would get it going. So I heard newer versions of Ghost also support TCP/IP now (not just netbeui), so ok... I figured I'd try to get TCP/IP going from dos, using this Network Client program. I added TCP/IP to its protocol list, set up the IP and subnet mask and such, and rebooted, and it looks like its coming darn close to working, but when the autoexec.bat fires these programs: tcptsr.exe, tinyrfc.exe, nmtsr.exe ..they all give the same error of: "Net0111: Error accessing NEMM.DOS" This nemm.dos was one of the files thet Network Client came with and it looks like it's present just as it should be. Since all 3 programs are complaining about this one same file, I'm guessing if I could solve the problem, all 3 errors would go away. Any ideas why they would say there was error accessing this nemm.dos? Many thanks in advance.

Ghost doesn't care what protocol you use, as long as your network supports it, ghost supports it . You need to download the DOS driver for your PCMCIA network card. Unfortunately, you may also need the card services software for your laptop. CSS provides access to the PCMCIA bus from DOS. There used to be generic CSS you could download, but it is no longer available . Try and get it from the manufacturer of your laptop. Another alternative is to try Bart's TCP/IP bootdisk. You can read about / get it here: http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/msclient/ It will also tell you if your particular NIC Card is supported. HTH, Michael

man this stuff is nuts. OK,...i'm gonna butt in here because my problem sounds similar..and it seems like a gazillion other folks have the same issue. If I may first, here is my dilemma...as it sounds similar. I have an NEC Versa V notebook with a 3com ethernet card in the PCMCIA port. My ultimate goal is simple networking to install Windows off of a networked CD-ROM ....similar story it seems to so many others. I have followed that tutorial that seems to have links all over the place ...really nice and well done. But like all the other people around here..it seems to get CLOSE but no cigar. I have the NIC DOS driver installed (this is under MS-DOS 6.2 if that matters) and have the dos networking program from the Microsoft website installed ...but at bootup time error messages pop up saying that the card isn't accessible. I can only assume that this is because even though the NIC's diagnostics show the card a-ok, DOS simply doesn't know how to find it without the benefit of some kind of "card & socket service" driver. I wonder though, that guys tutorial at WOWN.COM made no mention as far as i can tell about that little tidbit ....and i mean, you'd THINK that'd come up as an issue doncha think? but i suppose the anticipation of using a notebook with DOS wasn't a priority...fair enough. So here it would seem we all are trying to figure out where the hell to get this card/socket driver thingy ....i don't know about you guys...but as for myself i'm quite happy to pay for software that is practical and well written ...but i'm not excited about spending money on a driver that probably would cost more than i spent for this cheapo laptop ....surely there is another way around this? I installed windows on this cheapo once before by using that DOS/WINDOWS direct connection setup thingy through the parallel port ...but good god that is a nightmare... it seems pretty ridiculous that say, the NIC manufacturers wouldn't make some kinda basic lame-o add-on thingy for their DOS driver so that the computer can actually ...you know.... SEE it .... sigh... graham

responding to the original question, not card & socket services which I have never figured out... I restore 10 classroom (desktop not laptop) PCs every night using PowerQuest's Drive Image Pro (conceptually the same as Ghost). It uses TCP/IP and requires that all network connections be established in DOS. It took much trial and error, but now works great off of a DOS boot floppy (and virtual boot disks). I have made this work with both DR-DOS and the Windows 98 version of MS-DOS. The section of the system.ini that feeds info re nemm.dos that works for me is as follows: [network drivers] netcard=A:\NET\ELNKII.DOS transport=tcpdrv.dos,nemm.dos devdir=A:\NET LoadRMDrivers=yes Good luck, Paul

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I have had the same problems. Many laptops require that you enable the PCMCIA card before you can load the NDIS or whatever drivers. Look closely at the install disk that came with your NIC card. On mine (linksys pcmcia) it is called enabler.exe. It has to be loaded in config.sys device=enabler.exe /irq:05 /iop:300 Also... at a command prompt from dos not inside windows... type enabler ? to show it's limited help messages.. Good luck. Jim Shearer

The King of DOS has struck again ... to get rid of the "Net0111: Error accessing NEMM.DOS" .... just add this line in your config.sys file DEVICE=A:\NET\NEMM.DOS If your nemm.dos file is in that dir... that fixed it for me ... more questions ? Just shoot me an e-mail...