How to enable USB drives in both Windows 98SE AND MS-DOS 7.1.

[Grant Taylor]

On 02/07/2018 11:27 PM, Curious Marc via cctalk wrote:
> Here you go:
> 
> Networking between Win98 and Win7
> 
> On Windows 7, using regedit, set 
> “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\LMCompatibilityLevel” 
> to “1” You might need to create the new entry under \lsa as a 
> REG_DWORD, set to 1

I wonder what that does to the security posture of Windows 7.  Though, 
chances are good that's not as big a concern for a hobbyist.  (Assuming 
that they are more responsible about keeping other things up to date 
than the average person.)

> On the Win98 machine: You have to install the Active Directory Extension, 
> part of the unofficial service pack 3 which you have to download It's 
> the first option on the install. I installed just that.

It's been too long.  Is the AD Extension strictly necessary on Windows 
98?  I thought that was to allow 98 to brows DFS and as such wasn't 
strictly needed to use old classic \\server\share UNC format.

> Then from there it's regular stuff: put the machines on the same workgroup 
> name, enable sharing of your folders, permissions, etc...

ACK  I expect that it's standard SMB networking (woes).

> From Win7, the Win98 machine appears in the Network, just click on it 
> to browse the shares

*nod*

> From Win98, Win7 is not accessible from the Network Neighborhood. You 
> have to type directly the share address in an Explorer toolbar window 
> like so \\Workshop\SharedFolder I had to shorten my share names for this 
> to work, long names did not work.

I wonder if this is an issue with Windows 98 not doing something, or an 
issue with Windows 7 not sending out broadcasts.

This sounds like classic SMB browse master related issues.  (I wonder if 
WINS server might help.)

Oh God, the bad old days of SMB.

Follow up question.  -  What protocol did you use?  TCP/IP?  I assume 
that Windows 7 doesn't have NetBEUI.  (I've not looked and I know 
Microsoft was trying to deprecate it.)

Thank you for sharing Marc.  :-)



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Grant. . . .
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