has anyone ever managed to get a 3.11 wfw machine to authenticate/logon to a 2003 domain ???

Isnt that like trying to email Hieroglyphics from the pyramids?

Never going to work, MS have never released an AD client to run on that OS. Win95 kind of works, but thats it.

yes it is lol im really hacked off about this tbh they have spent lots of money on an laser cutter that uses 3.11 on its control box :( we use a 2003 ad and they want to be able to get onto an xp machine to pick up some drawings :(

I think you'll have to back off the authentication level to support LM on the 2003 domain controller, by doing so you will lower the security posture to the level of the wfw machine (not recommended). Win2003 server requires SMB signing too, natively, pre windows 98 (or maybe 2000) didn't support that, so you will also have to turn off the requirement for SMB signing on the 2003 server - again, lowering the security for the whole domain.

When you've spend all the time doing this, you've got to ask yourself, is it really worth the hassle. Or perhaps you've got legacy apps that rely on the wfw machines?

Dave.

yes it is lol im really hacked off about this tbh they have spent lots of money on an laser cutter that uses 3.11 on its control box :( we use a 2003 ad and they want to be able to get onto an xp machine to pick up some drawings :(

A CD burner and a stack of media would probably be a more straightforward way of transferring the data...

Rob.

Can you get onto the individual XP box directly by enabling the guest account and turning off simple file sharing? Or maybe just put the XP box into a workgroup temporarily...

well you see the way i have it at the moment is the machine is visable to the network (workgroup) and they can write to it so i was storing the files on there but they dont want this as they dont want to fill the machine up (i can understand this). there is only a floppy drive on this control pc too so ah well looks like its my way or bloody floppy disks :P

ah well im going to go laugh while pointing at them

I guess another potential way of doing it would be to have another box in the middle, member of the domain, and share a folder on that which could be seen by the W311 box. If you want to make it as safe as possible, perhaps use a different protocol and slap it behind a router?

its getting too complicated really when they could just stick it on floppy im just going to tellthem they are ****ed and will have to cope with it either that or see if they sell an upto date control system

Mike can you run Server 2003 in Mixed mode ? If so it should work, if you can only run it in Native mode then you are screwed.

Another option - stick the files in a virtual directory for IIS to spit it out as a web page. Even W311 has some kinda browser in it, so you should be able to hit the internal web server. Bypasses all this AD stuff completely

Only catch could be if you need to have read/write access I suppose...

In any case, even then you could do it by using an appropriate package, loads of free ones that will do it without resorting to FTP.

Robocopy might also help, assuming you run it on the server, as the server will be able to push stuff down to the 311 box

they are just saving work direct to 3.11 box now i dont have the time to **** around with it :(