Where I'm at we have an a few people still using an old program that requires dos/win98 to run, and so we still have a few windows 98 pcs scattered around. Long term I will get rid of the program, but as that's not possible right now I want to at least get rid of the old windows 98-powered hardware. 

To do this I'm trying to create a virtual appliance with virtual box to replace the 98 machines. I'm going with FreeDOS for licensing reasons and because I don't want users to wait for a virtual 98 to startup.

The problem, though, is that I can't figure out how to get DOS to talk to the Novell server. I'd like to be able to just have a `net use` command, but the `net` command doesn't exist on the box as far as I can see. I've been able to get a basic driver installed for the network card that seems to work (using the intel card option). In fact, I can get it to print `Attached to server AAAA` using the NETX command and IPX protocol, where it must have pulled the name "AAAA" from the network since it's not configured anywhere. But I don't see how to actually do anything with it after that.

Any ideas appreciated.