SHARING PCs AND PRINTERS ON WIN 7 AND WIN 98 NETWORK

    SHARING PCs AND PRINTERS ON WIN 7 AND WIN 98 NETWORK

    SHARING PCs AND PRINTERS ON WIN 7 AND WIN 98 NETWORK

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    How To Share PCs And Printers
    On Local Windows 7 And
    Windows 98 Network


    1. Download and install on Win 98 Active Directory Services Client DSClient for Win9x to enable NTLMv2 Network Authentication btw Win 98 and Win 7;

    2. Open Regedit in Win98 at the key below, then create a key named LSA, then under the newly created key, create a DWORD value named LMCompatibility, and set it's value to 3.

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control

    3. Go to Win98 Control Panel, and open the Users applet, then create a new User Account with the same credentials (User Name and Password) as the one on Win 7;

    4. Reboot your Win 98 PC and login with the newly created account. Setup shared folders or drives, and printers;

    5. In Win 7 also setup shared folders or drives, and printers, then follow the guide How to make Windows 7 work with older Windows versions for networking and file sharing to select other Networking Settings;

    6. Open Regedit in Win 7 at the key below and set its value to 1, then reboot. Doing this downgrades Win 7 access security, but now you can work with shared folders on Win 98 from Win 7 PC.

    Code:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\LMCompatibilityLevel
    7. To access a USB printer, connected to Win 98 PC, set it up in Win 7 as local with 64-bit drivers, then add 32-bit drivers for sharing in Printer Prefs. Reconnect printer to Win 98, then change its port in Win 7 Printer Prefs from local to its Win 98 network address, like \\workgroup_name\printer_name ;

    8. To access a shared Win 7 folder from Win 98, don't try to browse its Network Neighborhood. Instead, open it by typing it's UNC path, like \\workgroup_name\share_name in Run dialog or Win Explorer's address bar in Win 98. You can map an open share to a network drive, but it may need be remapped after each reboot;

    9. To access from Win 98 a shared USB printer, connected to Win 7 PC, click on Printers in Win 98 Windows Explorer, and use Add Printer Wizard that appears in Printers window to add a network printer. Or set it up as a local in Win 98, then change its port to Win 7 printer's network address. It may be a challenge though to get connected to the printer;

    10. If Win Explorer slows down, wait... If it gets repeatedly slow on each click, close and reopen, or reboot the PC. You're done! When you don't need to share your Win 7 PC with Win 98, don't forget to restore its network security settings by changing mentioned in step 6 Win 7 Registry key value to 5, then restoring to defaults Win 7 Networking Settings.









  1. Posts : 1
    Win 7 Pro x64
       #1

    Thank you, this worked for me
    Last edited by JasonLWin7x64; 13 Nov 2012 at 11:51.
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  2. Posts : 13
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #2

    This is actually quite a useful way to work around the inability to do direct vmware-host sharing with any pre-XP guest machines (as this is unsupported by Vmware). I would add that if you are using the "standard" IP address for the NAT network on the host (I understand this is 192.168.244.1 on a network that is 192.168/16 based), then you can use that hard-coded IP instead of the "vmware-host" NetBIOS name. This would still allow you to move the VM guest around between alternative hosts on the same network (or indeed operate cloned VMs).
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  3. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #3

    Client


    Download link for client is dead, could someone share it?
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  4. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Pro x64
       #4

    ruthan said:
    Download link for client is dead, could someone share it?
    You can get it from web-archive:
    http://web.archive.org/web/201108070...dsclient9x.msi
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