Hmmm.. Okay, done! Quite interesting. I'm booting a P2 off the floppy exclusively and can logon to my workgroup. I can map my shares on the other PC to a driveletter on the P2 and do a DIR no problem.
I'm just seeing the 8.3 names right now and Network Neighborhood and find are having trouble seeing the P2, but this should be overcomeable (?). If not, then losing the LFNs is a bit of a problem, particularly for what you want to do.
[On second thoughts, it isn't overcomeable, because the network client is DOS based and knows nothing about LFNs]
I shall explore this further.
Thanks Flybywyre for inadvertently setting me an interesting exercise. Hope things are going better with you.
Edited to add: S'pose you could do it by backing up and restoring the LFNs [Use DOSLFNBK from
http://www8.pair.com/dmurdoch/programs/doslfnbk.htm - shareware $10, rather than the awful and dangerous Win95 LFNBK]. On the other hand you could buy a copy of Norton Ghost ($70), which will backup an image over a network and do lots of other magic.