I've got a Windows 98 host here (yes, really, in 2020!) that I use to read and write floppy disks for my various vintage systems. For those who are curious, it is (at the moment):
Compaq Deskpro EN (chassis only)
Gigabyte GA-6VEM Socket 370 mainboard
Pentium 3 1.4 GHz
1 GB RAM
60 GB SATA2 SSD with IDE/SATA bridge
1.44 MB and 360 kB floppy drives
I was having issues with the machine being unable to connect to my Fedora-based NAS, receiving the error:
The solution was suggested here, but I needed to add one more configuration item:
[global]
server min protocol = NT1
lanman auth = yes
ntlm auth = yes
That solved the problem and allowed my 98 host to connect and mount my shares. Of course, enabling LANMAN auth is a significant security hole, but on my internal network, I'm not too worried.
