Equally Stupid But Slightly Less Old PC - File Sharing/ICS I'm trying to connect my Win2k PC to a crappy old P75 upstairs (running Win95 C), so I can share files from the one downstairs and possibly share the internet connection. Here's what I've done so far: - Added a 2nd NIC to the downstairs PC (so one is connected to the ADSL modem; the other to the PC upstairs via a crossover cable) - Connected the two PCs - Installed the same network components on both: Client for Microsoft Networks, File & Printer Sharing, and TCP/IP - Set up sharing on some drives/folders On network 1 (win2k PC & modem), the PC is 192.168.1.2 and the modem is 192.168.1.1; on network 2 the win2k PC is 192.168.1.4 and the Win95 one is 192.168.1.3 At the moment, both the PCs seem to be able to see each other, and are both visible on the network neighbourhoods dealy on both PCs. But here's the problem: I can access the Win95 PC's shared files fine on the Win2k PC, but when I try and access the shared files of the Win2k PC on the Win95 PC it asks for a password for "\\<Win2k PC name>\IPC$". What the hell password is this?! I tried the password for the logged on profile on the Win2k PC - that doesn't work. I tried nothing - that also doesn't work. I can't seem to find anything about a password being set on anything related to file sharing on the Win2k PC! Anyone know what's going on?!? Would this be a lot easier if I just put NT4 on the old PC? Would the NT4 setup thing allow to set up dual-booting (I made two primary partitions on the hard disk and want to keep Win95 on it too)? If not, how could I do it?
Looking around I found something similar to your problem but with Win98 and 2k networking. Other then the stuff you already mentioned it said to set up set up user/guest account on the 2k machine and add them as local users. Make sure the PC's are all part of the same workgroup as well.
How do I do this? I've tried logging in using the same user/password on the Win95 PC as the profile on the other one, but it still asks for a password. They are on the same workgroups.
Oh... that was simpler than I thought! Thanks! It still asks for that imaginary password when I try and map network drives, but at least something's working right... now I have to get Internet Connection Sharing to work...
After lots of messing around with the network settings - mostly breaking things and trying to un-break them - I actually got ICS to work! I'm so happy :-D Only problem is trying to find a remotely decent browser for Win95. I've got IE 3 which makes everything look broken (especially things with JavaScript) and Lynx, which is *a bit* basic. IE 6 won't install on anything lower than Win98. Any ideas? And what about a newsgroup reader?
Good skills, internet connection sharing can be a bitch to get working cross-OS The latest Opera (7.54u2) supports Windows 95.
...so it does. Mozilla (but no Firefox) does too, but recommends a 233 or higher. Can't see any system requirements for Opera, but I can't believe it being anything but chronic on this thing! At least I found some cover CD off a magazine that has IE 5.5 on it - at least websites actually display properly on this! With IE3, pretty much every site came up with some JavaScript error, and it appears to pre-date CSS, so every site was grey and broken-looking!
Dude, why do you put yourself through this torture? Sell the millions of old pieces of crap you've got, even for a tenner each, and get a DECENT pc!!
I don't think I can buy a decent PC with 30 Euro... I only have 3 full pieces of crap, and a load of bits of crap. And I don't think I'd make much profit from selling IDE ribbon cables, 80MB hard disks, 486 CPUs and ISA graphics cards on eBay... And I want to keep the P75 for DOS games. The 386 is pretty much an heirloom now - we've moved country 2 times and moved house 3 times since 1992, and it just won't go away! My brother's doing his Final Year Project now so he's using the good (and by good I mean only 4 years old ^_^) PC most the time, but at least I have something else that can play MP3s (yes, as P75 can play any MP3 no prob's! Just don't even think of trying WMAs or AAC, though!) and go on the internet... really badly...
