Mageia 9 and Windows 98 shares [DONE]

[rychok]

I have been working in production shop that uses some old software, I'm still running free DOS for one of them.
The CAM program for AMADA turrets was written for Win 3.1, but it is running on Win98SE using VMWare. The files created by program are saved on Linux file system - as Samba shares. From time to time I am also syncing these files to Win98 inside VMWare. For long time my computer was running Mageia 4 and running rsync on mounted win98 shares was fine. When I have upgraded hardware I have also changed system to MGA9, and rsync just hung on first use. At that time when I have opened the mounted share in Dolphin, or run ll command for first time everything looked fine, but sizes of files after refreshing list were getting bigger, actually size of every file was 4G times the actual size - this was fixed, but (I have checked after recent kernel upgrade) even mounting is fine, and I can read files from windows shares, there is a problem creating, overwriting or saving files.
If I try to create text file from Dolphin - message says that can not be created, although the empty file with part extension is created, trying to save file from kwrite first is giving error but second time clicking save will work. Pluma editor is saving file on first attempt, but the there is a problem if you want so save changes.
Rsync can not work in this condition, as workaround I'm using vmware-mount to sync files back to win98 system, but I was searching for information about this problem, and I did not see it on Internet. Maybe because not many people are still using Win98, or there was an additional change or option to mount command that should be used - last I have used was:

mount -t cifs //serverIP/Share /mnt/vm-sync/ -o user=,vers=1.0,servern=ServerName,password=,uid=UID,gid=GUI,sec=none

Or somehow fix was not applied to MGA9 kernel?


We have server running MGA6 - still working correctly, and I've checked also MGA8 on my laptop, also no problems there.
Thank You for any info in this matter.

[morgano]

For a shot in the dark, maybe try backport kernel 6.18 https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Kernel_flavo ... rt_kernels

Sidenote: my take on running old Windows program is dual-booting WinXP.
Free DOS brings memories, I wrote a modem driving application in Basic in the nineties shipping on a couple boxes with FreeDOS. One-button interface and alphanumeric LCD status screen....

[doktor5000]

Or somehow fix was not applied to MGA9 kernel?

You should probably not expect any fixes for SMBv1 shares, as SMBv1 is even disabled by default.

Why not simply use VMWare shared folders instead of SMB shares ?
Another alternative would be either using FTP or SSH to transfer files, even though for Win98 only much older clients are available which have a lot of security issues (but that's basically the same issue with SMBv1)

[rychok]

Or somehow fix was not applied to MGA9 kernel?

You should probably not expect any fixes for SMBv1 shares, as SMBv1 is even disabled by default.

It is disabled but not forbidden or eliminated, It is not secure in wide use, but who cares in internal shop environment when is needed for still working equipment.
Also the first issue with file sizes were fixed.

I've ask this question because I have seen some post on Internet mentioning this problem but usually was marked as solved.

I will try on one computer kernel 6.18 to se how it works, the only problem with vmware mount is that can not be done when win98 is running.