It’s getting harder to make those old insecure SMB versions work on modern servers every year, but I do like the idea of keeping a single software repository when possible.
Linux:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/win9x_samba.htm
Windows 10:
http://kishy.ca/?p=1511
Windows 11:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/04/micro … -in-windows-11/
Here is a great write up on how to patch win98 for large drives:
https://msfn.org/board/topic/129027-big-hdd-4 … a-thread-index/
Case One: One already has Win 9x working, out of a <137GB disk, and simply wants to add another >137GB IDE HDD, as a second disk, not as system disk:
1) Grab and install BHDD31.ZIP.
2) Reboot. Win 9x now has 48-bit LBA support.
3) Add new (Big) HDD. Partition and format it with The Ranish Partition Manager.
4) Get back to Win 9x and enjoy it!
Case Two: One already has Win 9x working, out of a <137GB disk, and simply wants to substitute it for a >137GB IDE HDD, as system disk:
1) Grab and install BHDD31.ZIP.
2) Reboot. Win 9x now has 48-bit LBA support.
3) Clone the boot partition of the old disk to the boot partition of the new one.
4) Swap the disks.
5) Get back to Win 9x and enjoy it!
Case Three: One wishes to do a fresh install on a >137GB IDE HDD, using the original Windows Install CD.
1) Partition and format the HDD with The Ranish Partition Manager.
2) Start windows install and *turn off* the machine at the point when it starts to reboot into Win 9x.
3) Boot to DOS from a diskette and substitute the file ESDI_506.PDR found at C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS by the updated one, grabbed from inside BHDD31.ZIP. Win 9x now has 48-bit LBA support.
4) Resume windows install.
5) After it finishes install BHDD31.ZIP, to update the other programs.
6) Get back to Win 9x and enjoy it!
Case Four: One wishes to do a fresh install on a >137GB IDE HDD, using a modified Windows Install CD.
1) Copy the contents of your Windows 98 install CD to a folder in your HDD. (Let's use D:\98CD\ as an example.)
2) Extract the contents of BHDD31.ZIP to D:\98CD\Win98. (Extracting !read.me, _bighdd.inf, _install.bat and xxFiles.txt isn't necessary.)
3) Extract the boot sector from the original install CD using IsoBuster or UltraISO.
4) Burn the contents of D:\98CD\ to CD or CD-R with your favorite CD burning program. (Don't forget to make your CD bootable with the boot sector you just extracted!)
5) Partition and format the HDD with The Ranish Partition Manager.
6) Install Windows 98 from CD like you would normally do.
7) Get back to Win 9x and enjoy it!