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    I have just loaded microsoft server 2008 and am in the process of connecting my workstations through lan to this server. All workstations with os windows 2000 and xp connect, but the workstations with os windows 98 are not connecting. These workstations were fine when server 2003 was installed. I have tried installing active directory client on my workstation running win 98.  The server shows the win 98 computer in teh domain, but the win 98 workstation does not show the server 2008.  Can someone help me in this regards.

    Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4:36 PM

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    Hello,

     

    Did you mean you’d like to join Windows 98 workstation to Windows Server 2008 based domain?

     

    Based on my experience, it should be OK to join Windows 98 workstation to Windows Server 2008 based domain after the DSCLIENT utility is installed on Windows 98 workstation.

     

    You might refer to the following KB article to install the DSCLIENT utility on Windows 98 workstation:

     

    555038 How to enable Windows 98/ME/NT clients to logon to Windows 2003 based Domains

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555038

     

    However, as Windows 98 has out of support lifecyle, we haven’t done much tests to guarantee this will work with the new version of Windows Server without any problems. If it is possible, I recommend you upgrade all Windows 98 workstations to Windows XP or Vista in order to obtain the better product.

     

    Thanks.

     

    Regards,

    Neo Zhu

     

    Thursday, May 1, 2008 5:44 AM

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    Hello,

     

    Did you mean you’d like to join Windows 98 workstation to Windows Server 2008 based domain?

     

    Based on my experience, it should be OK to join Windows 98 workstation to Windows Server 2008 based domain after the DSCLIENT utility is installed on Windows 98 workstation.

     

    You might refer to the following KB article to install the DSCLIENT utility on Windows 98 workstation:

     

    555038 How to enable Windows 98/ME/NT clients to logon to Windows 2003 based Domains

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555038

     

    However, as Windows 98 has out of support lifecyle, we haven’t done much tests to guarantee this will work with the new version of Windows Server without any problems. If it is possible, I recommend you upgrade all Windows 98 workstations to Windows XP or Vista in order to obtain the better product.

     

    Thanks.

     

    Regards,

    Neo Zhu

     

    Thursday, May 1, 2008 5:44 AM
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    for old OSes also see:

    ·         Client computers may not work correctly when you add a Windows Server 2008-based domain controller to an existing pre-Windows Server 2008 domain

    ·         When a Windows NT 4.0-based computer tries to use the NETLOGON service to establish a security channel to a Windows Server 2008-based domain controller, the operation may fail

     

    Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:00 PM
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    Hello AESLABS
    have You resolved Your problem. I'm looking for somebody who has got in a Win98 client into a server2008.
    I can logon the Domain and also copy files from the server to the win98 client but I havn't access from the client to the network drives on the server2008.

    If in Your configuration it works fine so I see that it could work and I can look for errors in my cinfiguration. Until today I havn't found nobody who works with a win98 in a server2008 .

    Thanks

    Karl-Heinz Christ
    Genova
    Monday, November 10, 2008 11:17 PM
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    I am having the same problem on my legacy machines, they will not connect to the mapped drive it says "Access Denied" I tried the above listed resolutions to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.
    Wednesday, December 31, 2008 5:10 PM
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    I've been tryin for several hours to make a Win98 client conect to SBS2008 shares.
    The domain guest is enabled and XP Home boxes can browse the server perfectly, but Win98 just won't. It all started with an ugly "the device does not exist on the network" error when trying to access the SBS (worked fine with all other computers though).

    I've set up WINS, installed DSClient, smb signing, lmhash, lmcompatiility, nt4 crypto etc. etc. but no luck.

    When the client is set for domain logon, it doesn't accept my domain password saying it's not correct or logon has been denied, while the Server logs an incorrect user/pass event.
    Without domain logon, Windows accepts any login/password at the Microsoft Networks login prompt and then tries using it while browsing other computers. It fails to authenticate and keeps asking for a password. The only account which works in this scenario is "guest", since it doesn't have a password. It might be good for a start, but I'd rather mount some restricted shares as network drives.

    Everyone says "it should work the same as with 2003", but did anyone actually manage to pull that off?

    rgrds,
    Tomasz

    Monday, July 13, 2009 8:08 PM
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    Tomasz - did you have any luck?  We can connect to the domain and browse network shares, but we cannot open/copy most files on the shared drive (very small files work fine for some reason though).

    Wednesday, August 19, 2009 3:04 PM
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    No luck with non-guest authentication, and I've noticed the strange connectivity drops too...

    However, we managed to scrap and put together some low-end XP boxes to replace those last few pesky 98/MEs, so I don't think I'll be pursuing this case any more.
    Tuesday, August 25, 2009 3:02 PM
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    I have exactly the same problem. I can login to server 2008 (after setting LSA in W98 registry), but I cannot open/copy files with file size above cca 15000 bytes. XP client is working good. Josh, did You resolve this problem? I tried to install hotfix to server (article 973246 Write error when you upload files into a shared folder...), but it didn't help to resolve this problem.

    Best regards

    Roman
    Friday, November 6, 2009 12:22 PM
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    Hi there,

    After you disable the policy to "do not allow Lan Manager Hashes on next password change" you need to actually change the password of the user account in order for the Lan Manager hash to work. 

    I'm trying to enable Windows 95 computers to connect to Windows Server 2008 R2. I can't connect to Windows Server 2008 r2 network drives.
    I can however connect to W2k8 r1 network drives without a problem.

    Robert
    Friday, November 6, 2009 12:54 PM
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    In an effort to consolidate the great troubleshooting solutions offered in this forum thread, our team has summarized the information contained here into a TechNet Wiki article at the following location: Windows 98 cannot join a Windows Server 2008 domain (dsforum2wiki)

    Please feel free to provide feedback on the article at the Wiki site, or you can edit the article itself.

    Thursday, November 4, 2010 6:21 PM
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    Hi there,

    I'm trying to enable Windows 95 computers to connect to Windows Server 2008 R2. I can't connect to Windows Server 2008 r2 network drives.
    I can however connect to W2k8 r1 network drives without a problem.

    Robert

    Hi Robert,

     

    I am facing the same problem as you : can't connect from Windows 95 to Windows 2008 R2 (on windows 95 PC : error message at log on = This request is not supported by the network )

     

    Have you or someone else find a solution ?

     

    Thomas

    Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:36 AM
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    I was have the same problems.  My Win98 computers were connecting to the Windows 2008 server and could display the content of directories but received an error when trying to copy a file fro the Windows 2008 server.  The solution was found here:

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverfiles/thread/2aa4de55-58a0-4624-9561-e725dc58bc5e

    I used LMCompatibility 2 on the Windows 2008 server to resolve the problem with the Set EnableRaw to "0".

    Richard

    Monday, June 11, 2012 3:49 PM