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  1. submix8c wrote: ------------------------------------------------------------- Since this subject has been resurrected, at first opportunity, I'll completely reload a couple of PC's (one w/Win98SE, one w/Win7) and go through the *two* scenarios again as "proof of concept" and revisit that topic with my findings. In the meanwhile, the OP has access by (apparently) Drugwash' method. ------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you. Also, while various online guides say to set LMCompatibility on the 9x+DSCLIENT machine to 3 and LMCompatibility level to 2 on the 7 computer, I've only had success with "1" as the LMCompatibility (on 9x) value.
  2. I came across that thread in my searches. Netbios is enabled on the W7 machines, the user/password combos are correct (otherwise I wouldn't even be able to browse shares by knowing their name), but I noticed several people stating that they can't use Network Neighborhood aswell. It's not a big deal, I got the "important" part working, and this N.N. issue is more esthetic than anything else, especially given that a good 90% of the time i access the shares by either typing their full name or by mapping them to a drive letter.
  3. Hello everyone, while my account is not that new, this is very likely my first actual post in this forum, so please excuse me if I get something wrong. Now, as the title states, I'm having a bit of a trouble in accessing shares hosted on machines running both Windows 7 and 2008R2. After quite a lot of googling and "playing" with LMcompatibility, LMcompatibilitylevel and the domain group policy, I've managed to get the 98 machine (98se updated with IE6 and the latest unofficial SP3, dsclient is installed but not set to authenticate against anything, just set the machine to be part of a workgroup named the same as the domain) to fully talk with Vista and older computers, by "fully" I mean that i can access shares both from Network Neighborhood and from typing \\hostname\share in the address bar. Unfortunately on NT6.1 I only managed to get the address bar part working, as while the remote computer does indeed show up in N.N., double-clicking it greets me with a "\\HOSTNAME is not accessible. This request is not supported by the network." error popup. So here I am, asking the 9x gurus on here for some help. PS: English is not my first language, so excuse any errors and weird sentence structure.
  4. thank you! I'm pretty sure i'll remain active here. Even better, I hope I'll post answers too, and not only questions. btw, I'll always thought that rule #2 was: You DO NOT talk about the Fight Club. I may try to use another SATA drive, but why? I mean, i started this thread because i wanted to use a drive that was sitting unused on a shielf. But since i need to buy a brand new disk and i don't need scary performances* nor i need many space**, I'll take the easy way and buy an IDE one. * I remember seeing a Raid 0 array of 15k rpm ultra320 scasi drives on a pentium 200 MMX. That thing was fast. ** carmageddon and half-life aren't hungry of GBs
  5. now it looks like i can't even format a drive. win98's format fails (Not ready. Format terminated) and if i use gparted, scandisk says something about the LBA and the end of the disk ##UPDATE## i think i've found why i had all that problems with format, scandisk and the mbr: the first ~500MBs are damaged. so i think this "war" has ended: i need to buy a new drive (NEVER EVER trust a drive with damaged sectors. i had an ibm 60GXP years ago. one day chkdsk found ONE damaged sector. the following day the drive was making beautiful clicking noises and the computer greeted me with a nice "Primary Master Hard Disk Fail"), so i'll just look for a IDE model
  6. NR. 1: NTLDR works ok. since ntldr works, what if i 1) try to install 98 on that disk (maybe on another machine with onboard sata with legacy support and install the via driver (just to be sure). when the driver setup asks me to reboot, i just shut the machine down and then i 2) connect the drive to the PIII, then boot from win2000 cd and install it on another partition. this _should_ install a working NTLDR with a working boot.ini and a working ntdetect.
  7. was posting in italian because my english skills are almost sub-zero, the poster who asked me that was italian. i didn't want to broke rule #2 i was saying that the card is not bootable ON ITS OWN, but if you _mod the motherboard bios_ to add its option rom then the system WILL boot from it. that said, every "modern" system (or should i say designed AFTER WW2? ) like any version of NT (4.0 thru 6.1 - yep, i've ever tried win7 on that box) or any linux with a kernel >= 2.6.26 (like opensuse 11 or centOS) will boot flawlessly.
  8. allora, premo il tasto per accenderlo, si accende, memory test, elenca le unità connesse alle porte ide della motherboard, poi carica il bios del controller (e mostra le periferiche connesse al controller) e poi mi mostra la tabella con gli irq e si "blocca" qui (non so se si possa definire bloccato dato che premendo i rispettivi tasti le luci numlock, caps e scroll rispondono) and then it "freezes" here (i'm not sure if it is a proper freeze, since the status light on the keyboard (num, caps, scroll) turns on/off when you press their keys) i've installed many times various nt systems (nt4, 2000, xp and 2k3) on a disk on the onboard controller, then installed the drivers for the addon controller and then cloned the installs without problems) were connected on onboard controllers or pci addons ones? i was talking that while on nt you can make it load the proper drivers during setup, on 9x you can't
  9. the older driver you posted made no effect: while the system can read and write w/o problems the data on the sata disk, it can't boot from it. it freezes when (i think) it should load the bootloader I don't think that messing with the bios is a viable option in this case. This card isn't well made, for example it is not bootable on its own, you had to edit the motherboard bios and insert its option rom for making your computer boot from it. after all this, installing 98 on a ide disk and keep win2k and suse on the sata disk is probably both easier and more reliable than trying to put a 11 years old OS based upon 28 years old technology on a "new" thing like is SATA
  10. the ide drive was connected to the ide channel on the VIA after doing many experiments, i think that the best thing i can do at the moment is to zero all the drives and then start from scratch (aka: installing on the ide, then trying the 2.20 drivers)
  11. thanks, in fact i had drivers v550b, claimed to be drivers for both sata and ide and compatible from dos to windows 7 amd64. i'll give these a try
  12. it was zeroed (connected to my main machine, then dd=if/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd) tried cloning a working 98 install. then zeroed again, used gparted to make a 30GB partition. formatted with mkfs.vfat. so now the hard drive has an empty fat32 30gb partiton. the install i've tried to clone had both - controller's driver installed - was on a partition smaller than 128 gb and the controller was set to be in SATA mode, since it completely lacks any configuration about this i've always thought that win98 had more gremlins than the electronics on a FIAT car, however i'll try to sort them out tomorrow, as here is 04:00 AM and i'm dead tired. for the moment i don't mind having dos compatibility drivers, as long as i can make it boot.
  13. what option? having only 1 drive i can't do anything at all, apart from pressing esc to quit setup well, even if via said that, my controller is a pci card, not a cardbus one. and yes, the controller has both sata (2 ch.) and ide (1 ch.) and i don't think the problem is lba48, 'cause windows was cloned (and later tried to install) on a 30 gigs partition (which fdisk said to be a 30,20 MB partition, but maybe this is due to an ancient version (the one included in an original bootable 98se compact disk, so can't install the fdisk update patch and then recreate the bootdisk)
  14. the problem is that the controller is a PCI card, and the only settings in its bios are for creating some kind of a soft-raid array
  15. Yes, this might be the easiest way. Even better, maybe I've found an 80GB IDE drive for a bargain price, more than enough space for my needs on that machine and even better than having a 10-years-old noisy (and probably dying, smart data are not that good) boot drive and another one just for data. Thanks for the time time you've lost trying to help me.
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