25 Aug
2010
25 Aug
'10
5:10 p.m.
On 25 August 2010 14:22, Jerome H. Fine <jhfinedp3k at compsys.to> wrote:
With Windows
XP,
my son says he is unable to make my wife's C: drive available even though I
can still
use the printer on my system to send stuff that I want printed while I am on
my wife's
system.
I see no reason why this shouldn't work.
The #1 most common gotcha is that whilst a standalone XP box can have
user accounts with blank passwords, you can't use network sharing to
or from XP if the user accounts in question have no password. You
*must* set a password and it must be the same on both ends.
Ensure 98 is entirely up to date; there was a patch for it to enable
encrypted SMB connections, which IIRC is what XP uses by default.
There is still an ancient version of Windows Update for 98, I think, &
you can also download a very handy 3rd-party "service pack" for 98
which rolls up all the MS updates ever released for it.
Do you know of any way that I could establish a link
over the router between
my
Windows 98SE system and the Windows XP system?
Share drive on 1 machine. Connect to it from the other. Ensure that
both have matching user account names and passwords. For interop with
98, this means:
* single-word username with no spaces or punctuation, <10char
* single-word computer name with no spaces or punctuation, <10char
* 98 only allows one user "account", so make sure you know what name &
password is being used
* create an account with the same name and password on XP.
If you're connecting from 98 to XP, the account need merely exist; you
don't need to be that user. If you're connecting from XP to 98, you
must be logged in as the account that is currently in use on the 98
end.
?Both system use FAT32
file structures, although that did not seem to matter when my wife used NTFS
on the Windows 2000 system. ?By the way, my son is an expert on Windows XP
and sets us up with a new system every 5 years or so.
With all due respect, he doesn't all that expert to me; this stuff is
not hard to get working. Even 3-4y ago I was meeting "IT
professionals" who had never seen a version of Windows older than XP,
and had no clue how to do anything at all on any OS other than XP. It
may be that your son knows nothing about 98 & how it works.
By the way, I requested FAT32 on the Windows XP system
so that when I use
Ghost during the backup, a text file is also created which logs the date and
CRC
value for each file in the backup image. ?On my present Windows 98SE system,
that helps a lot. ?When I backup my wife's system once a month, that text
file
is created for her system as well. ?Ghost does not support that feature with
NTFS.
[Shrug] I wouldn't know, I rarely use it.
Me, I have a 32MB FAT16 primary boot drive with DOS on it on all my
desktop PCs. Then you can run DOS apps from an actual live
booted-off-the-HD copy of DOS and they can write whatever logfiles
they like on there.
XP is perfectly happy to boot off a honking great NTFS volume in an
extended partition; it just writes a couple of boot files to the
primary DOS FAT drive.
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