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Reply 40 of 41, by VLIW

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Got Windows 2000 installed, used an 80GB IDE drive. Runs very well on Visualize P500 with two Katmai @ 500 MHz.

Next: Put in Geforce mx460 in place of the Elsa GLoria Primergy AGP. Will post benchmarks soon. The P500 is still slightly loud with its 2 or 3 fans, I might need to look into getting quieter ones.

As an aside: I am using the W2K as SMB share for the various other Windows PCs. To use a Windows 3.11 (WfW) client with Windows 2000 server sharing a directory, I had to add the Win 3.11 "user" as local user to Windows 2000 with short (under 😎 password. Now I can mount the Windows 2000 share through the W3.11 file manager as drive E and use that for transferring files.

Reply 41 of 41, by chinny22

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VLIW wrote on 2024-10-31, 15:46:

As an aside: I am using the W2K as SMB share for the various other Windows PCs. To use a Windows 3.11 (WfW) client with Windows 2000 server sharing a directory, I had to add the Win 3.11 "user" as local user to Windows 2000 with short (under 😎 password. Now I can mount the Windows 2000 share through the W3.11 file manager as drive E and use that for transferring files.

This is how it worked for me as well.
I've found for my retro network to keep things easy make all computers part of the same workgroup, use the same username on all PC's and a simple password as some things don't like blank passwords.
I find 1 makes a great password 😉