I've had the same issue with my TP- Link modem / router when trying to connect to a USB attached storage. Would only work from XP and up. I couldn't solve it and went back to sharing a drive on my home server instead.

What kind of 3com card? My 3C905C-TX-M works fine and I have used various 3C905x cards in the past without issue.

Your Fritzbox must not support the older versions of SMB protocol and/or password authentication. I can tell you that a Western Digital MyCloud EX2 works fine with the Public share.

No idea if this effects you and your particular hardware. I saw in Fritz!box OS notes that SMB was removed in a particular version and I didn't see it added back in a later version.

New with Version FRITZ!OS 6.01

Please note: access to fritz.nas via Windows Network Sharing (SMB/Samba) is not supported in this firmware version

This may also help.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/239869

Funny how people make different experiences. I've had nothing but issues with Realtek NICs in my current (top secret) project. The card that works, a D-Link NIC.

Has the Card more connectors TP and BNC?? then maybe you have to setup the Card which Connection type you wanna use.

The 3com was a 3C905 and has only one connector (RJ45) Mainboard is an Siemens D1215. And the Fritzbox is a new one, have it now for 6 months.

The idea is to make a Win98 machine to run old software and games. Therefore I have this main board (at this moment, till I find a better one for my PIII-1400), and use the fritzbox as storage (have a backup utility on the fritzbox storage for backup). I have so much old software collected in the years.

What you need to do for fixing SMB trouble on Windows 9x:

• Install the 128-bit cryptography updates and DUN 1.4, if you haven't.
• Install the Active Directory client.
• Set this registry item to an option that allows for NTLMv2.

A little kick here...

So I installed IE6, think than the 128 Bit cryptography updates is in there. Installed DUN 1.4 and DSClient. Added the entry in the registry, but what next?

I used to open explorer and type \\serverip\ and than a login window appears. But here still the IPC$ user appears. Also on Net use I can't give a Username, only a Password.

What do I have to do next?

Maybe this?

1http://www.liutilities.com/products/registrybooster/tweaklibrary/tweaks/10629/

Roman78 wrote:

But the first one is not working and the second one, there is no Guest account on the Fritzbox.

So someone an idea?

On my Fritzbox I can enable a guest account (actually have, if people feel like using the WIFI in my house instead of wired LAN).

Is Win98 and the NAS a member of the same workgroup?
Can you create a login on the NAS with the same username/password as your Win98 login? and I would give it a password even if its simply 1 or something. I've seen networking do funny things when no password has been set.
Then if you log into windows with that account, if you are lucky it'll pass the login credentials over when you try and access the NAS

Have to see if i could add a workgroup on the NAS. Haven't tried same username and password on win98 yet. Only on W2K, makes logon easier, but that is certainly one to try. And password is a must on Linux based machines, even a fritzbox, without nothing works. Already run into this problem years ago.