I'm not sure if Robert L. was replying to my post, or to the original author.
However, I have no FAT32 partitions. My old laptop with Win95-B is on a
FAT16.
I don't have any problems accesing the Win95 from Vista or Server 2008, but
when trying to access a shared (standard, not NFS) drive, with no password
required on Vista or Server 08, the Win95 user is quized for a password to
IPC$, and allways rejected. I have set the Local Access Policy to use {LM &
NTLM & NTLMv2-if negotiated}. I will try and use NTLM only, as that works
good with Server 2003.
I'm also starting to suspect that part of my NFS problems on Vista and
Server 08, are caused by Server 03' which has the maps, and is the
go-between. I suspect that because I found it interferes with Samba
negotiations when online, whereas they work fine when it's offline. There is
also a router involved, but I do't think it causes any problems. Supposedly,
if there is no go-between mapper, Vista and server 08' will try and negotiate
an anonymous connection with the Linux NFS server. I know that "something"
must work. ......Too many protocols I think sometimes, but I'm I'm to test
this stuff, then I'm gonna test it to the max.
Back to the original author.... I have no opinion on if you should upgrade
to Vista Ultimate until I can get my own working, but you might give Samba a
shot. I say this because Samba will act more like a MS network than does
NFS, and your UNIX machine will show up in your Vista Network page. NFS
machines won't, and you are faced with having to explicitly map everything
out, and as we are finding out, that usually don't work. One of the
suggestions I made to MS was to put the old style network views back into
Vista and Server 08'.
I tried an old version of Intergraph (the predisessor to SFU 1.0) NFS Client
on Vista and it won't work. One think I found that works a little is SFU
3.5-- "IF" Vista will let you install it. It might and it might not.
Good Luck guys !
Gu11B1rd