Turning Off Beeping in MS-DOS LAN Manager Workstations

ID: Q65320

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft LAN Manager, versions 2.0, 2.1

MS-DOS LAN Manager Basic and Enhanced workstations beep when there is a delay on a network request, or if an error condition occurs. Different procedures are needed to turn this beeping off, depending on the type of MS- DOS workstation that is being used.

LAN Manager Basic Workstations

For LAN Manager Basic Workstations, there is only one way to control beeping. To turn all beeping off, add the /q switch to MINSES line in LANMAN.INI. For example:

minses /q

LAN Manager Enhanced Workstations

For LAN Manager Enhanced workstations, you can turn off beeping for several situations. To turn off beeping when there is a delay on a network request to be processed, you need to change digit 11 in the WRKHEURISTICS entry of the LANMAN.INI [workstation] section. This value is the number of 4-second intervals that the workstation waits before beeping. If this value is set to zero, beeping is turned off. The range is 0-9. The default is 1 (one beep every 4 seconds).

The following steps can be used to turn off beeping when MS-DOS LAN Manager notifies you that an error has occurred (for example, when doing a NET SEND to a computer name or user name that does not exist). Add the /q switch to the end of the MINSES line in the [services] section of LANMAN.INI.

Change the following from:

minses = netprog\minses.exe

to:

minses = netprog\minses.exe /q

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