RE: Acessing V5R1 IFS from Win 98 Pcs.

["Barton, Mike" <Mike.Barton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>A client has some old PCs with Win98.  They would like to keep their PC 
>data on their iSeries IFS which is running V5R1.  I have never used Win 
>98 and I can  no longer remember how to access the IFS from Win 95 which 
>I imagine would have been very similar.
>
>I wish they had XP, but they are a charity with no money. 
>
>Can anyone please point me in the right direction.  Does Network 
>Navigator work under Win 98?
>
>All help gratefully received

Rob

        yes there are still ppl using win 98 :(

AFAIK, network navigator will not work..

iSeries Navigator will work on Win98 to V5R1 to access ifs. 

One option is to set a start-up batch pgm on the pc to map
a network drive directly to a shared if directory - something 
like:
net use S: \\{ip address}/shareDir password
this will setup a drive in windows explorer.
The {ip address} can be replaced by the netserver name which
is often the system name prefixed by a q. 

The small problem is that when accessing the ifs, you will need
to supply a password but u cannot specify the user as win98 by 
default uses the windows user.
So the only way to make it work is to have a user profile on the
iSeries matching the windows user (or vice versa).

HTH

Mike