Re: Acessing V5R1 IFS from Win 98 Pcs.

[Rob Dixon <rob.dixon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike

many thanks for such a quick response.



Barton, Mike wrote:

>         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).
>  
I suspect that they don't have passwords on their PC's (but I could be 
wrong!).  If so I will advise them to use them.

I am sure that I never did this with Win 95.  Is Win 98 different in 
this respect or is there another way?  If I have no choice but to change
users and passwords on the PCs  to match the iSeries, are there any 
special tips?  I know there have been posts about this before but I 
don't remember what they said.

Best wishes

Rob

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