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First post, by Blavius

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I've got a windows 95 OSR2 box with a shared folder. I'm trying to mount it in Linux Mint 22.3.
I'm successful in mounting and seeing files, but when I copy a file to the shared folder, the copy operation hangs and produces a 0kb file in the folder on the 95 machine.
Does anyone know what I'm missing here? This is the command I use to mount the folder:

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.2.32/SHARE /mnt/425 -o servern=425,guest,vers=1.0

425 is the name of the machine (IBM Valuepoint 425SX/S)

Reply 1 of 4, by EduBat

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I don't know what the problem is with the mount command but, the way I fixed the problem of sharing files between my linux machine and my win95 machine was to install a FTP server in the linux machine and use WS_FTP LE on win95.

Reply 3 of 4, by Blavius

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DosFreak wrote on 2026-04-19, 20:52:

Maybe try Re: Windows 98/ME Clients Hanging when viewing Samba 4 share in Windows Explorer

Gave the method in the tread a try, but that seems to only affect hosting the smb share on the linux machine.
I'm a bit concerned about setting up an ftp server for this from a security perspective. If I can't get smb to work, I'll fall back on zip drives I think.

Anybody else has some experience mounting a smb share? I find so many different ways online, which seems weird- seems like there should just be one tried and tested way.

Reply 4 of 4, by wierd_w

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Arguments in the wrong order.

SB:

mount -t cifs -o rw,uid=xxx,gid=xxx,[other-options] //x.x.x.x/someshare /somepath

Make sure you have samba-common (or equiv) installed, or you'll get a 'need helper program' error.

Server name is not important nor required if you use the IP address.

Protocol version (1.0 for old 9x) is needed.

only root can use mount, so you need to specify linux userid and groupid of the local linux user who will 'own' the mounted folder (Numeric form! The first added user is typically '1000', for reference). Specify those with uid and gid, respectively.

If you need to specify a windows user and pass, those would be the [other options]. The list is comma separated.

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