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Hi, everyone, Here's a biggie for you. :-) One of my clients is still fully dependent on legacy software that was custom made for them in 1993. (Don't ask. Please. Don't ask.) On the server side this means Novell Netware 4 and Btrieve, on the client side we're looking at either DOS and the Novell ODI stack (network interface driver, IPX protocol and Netware client requester) or Windows XP, the Netware client for XP and a DOSbox. Yes, I know. Ugh. But it's a long story and the reality is I have to suck it up and deal with it. They're at a point where this dinosaur simply cannot be upgraded, and scrapping it in favour of something belonging in this century requires either budget they don't have, or restructuring their workflow which they don't want. Their entire corporate culture has essentially calcified around this piece of crockery for the past 20 years and they want it that way. However. With XP being seriously end-of-life and Windows-8 being standard on all new PCs, I somehow do need to bend over backwards and make this work on W8 one way or another. Which is where virtualization comes in. I understand that Client Hyper-V does not support DOS natively. On Linux I used Oracle VirtualBox, but I have read mixed reports about using that on W8 (it seems to seriously clash with W8's own virtualization to the point where installing VB might break W8 and necessitates a system restore). I have little experience with W8 and none with Client Hyper-V. I realize it was not made to support the abomination above. But somehow I need to let a DOS app run on W8 and let it talk Btrieve to a Netware 4 server using the IPX protocol. In 2014. What are my options? Any suggestion would be a godsend. Thank you! // FvW

Ok so let me start out by saying that I know very little about computers or anything so I don't know if I even posted this in the right section or anything, so I appoligize for that much. I have a Dell Latitude D 505 laptop / windows xp / Novell. Those are the best things I can say to describe what I'm working with. It used to belong to a grade school that my mom works at, and when they updated their laptops, I got this one. When I turn on the computer, I get the log in screen, the way it should be. If this is relevant it is Novell ZENetworks Desktop Management. The usernames by default "student", because it used to be a schools laptop. There is no password so I click "ok" to login. Then this comes up: Novell Security Message The system could not log you into the network. Possible causes might be: -incorrect username or password -incorrect connection information -expired password -the workstations disconnected from the network Do you want to log into windows? Yes No Instinctively I press yes to the offer of logging into windows which then boots up the computer and brings me to my desktop screen. Now I'm on the actual computer and all and I get a pop up that says, "could not reconnect all network drives". I usually just ignore it and go about my work. Now basically what does all this mean and how can I fix it. I know that it seems irrelevant because as long as I can end up getting on, why does it matter, but I think that this whole thing may be the reason that I can't play a game online. I can play it offline but I won't let me get online cause it can't connect. Also, the Internet does work. I can click google chrome and use the Internet, just not in the game (which is minecraft, if that matters or not). I know this was long and annoying, I was trying to be as descriptive as possible, hopefully you guys can put up with me and help me out! Thanks!