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:
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