1993 PC using 2023 Asustor NAS

Awesome video! My knowledge of SMB just quadrupled because of this video. Keep up the great works and yet again it's great to have you back in the retro community.

Hey everyone! Marco here! Thank you Retrospector78 and everyone watching! We love retro too and when we were given the opportunity for Retrospector78 to combine 30 years of technology together with our own. We love listening to the feedback we've received from the retro community and also love listening to all of your feedback including praise, comments, questions and criticism. I'm working hard to bring the feedback to the boss, even if our engineers express their bewilderment. Feel free to reply to me and I'll reply to you back!

As a tech support person, with some fairly detailed knowledge of security, I can say that the best advice for securing most devices is do a combination of things. 1) Only enable what you need. Don't enable things like web servers unless you are planning to use them. Disable/uninstall them when finished. 2) Use a strong password. Preferably randomly generated, and use a password manager to remember it, if feasible> 3) Don't expose any device to the Internet unless you need to. Use a firewall (even if it's just one built into your router). It may be nice for you to have access to your NAS from outside your network, but how much could you lose if someone else got access? 4) Do not use an account with Admin rights unless you have to. 5) Make the the software and firmware on any devices you use is up to date.. This includes any networking hardware, such as routers, modems and switches.

thanks for the SMB setup. I have to put and old microscope at work on a share, and it runs DOS 5.0 (I guess). Now it will have access to the net share! :)

Thank you for running through this! I completely forgot about adding "lanman auth" to my smb config years ago when I built my NAS for my retro computers and instead added a FTP server that lists the NAS' contents for my Win3.11 system. I made that 1 line change to my smb config file and now I can enjoy mapped drives on my win3.11 PC :) So much better. THANK YOU. Gotta love the forgotten networking knowledge of yesteryear

I knew bits and pieces of this but your video did a great job putting it together in a coherent step by step format. Nice work! Glad to have you back posting videos.

Great video :) It was very clear and easy to follow along. I learned a lot. Looking forward to the next video :)

Hey, I am so glad seeing that you are back on your channel 🙂In this video i learned a lot and i understand why i am having so many problems with retro networking on my modern hardware. Top!

Great video...well done. Good research & well explained..this will help people in the near future setting up similar config...I loved it..waiting for more... 🙂

Great video. I’ve done this myself but using the RetroNas project docker container, is awesome

This is fantastic! Thank you. I worked so hard to get my XP machine to work with a NAS, then my 98 machine, but never could figure out why my Win 3.11 or DOS machines just did not want to know. This makes it so much clearer.

Thank you for a great video. As an IT admin since the early days of SMB1, I have encountered all this, but bringing it all together in one place is really cool!

Everything you ever needed to know to Get PS2 OPL network boot, I wish I had this 5 years ago when I was hunting for a bridge between SMBv1/CIFS documentation and Samba configuration and how it works with the GUI of modern consumer NAS devices. GREAT video good sir

Very interesting video, I love this kind of stuff. Glad you're back and making content; it's different to other retro channels and is relaxing and informative. By the way there is an error on the slide in step 3. "The user can cannot" should be "The user can connect",

I have a Western Digital My Cloud as my NAS which I upgraded to a 4TB SSD. I can access it from all of my vintage computers using Windows 3.11 onwards. I keep drivers for video cards, network adapters, sound cards etc and I even have setup files for each version of Windows from WFW all the way up to Windows 11.

Very cool! Looking forward to the next video installation.

Woah, bringing out the Powerpoint! Hehehe...I setup quite a few small MS-based networks back in the days. It's so funny looking back how insecure those networks actually were (well, you did have to actually be where the network was located due to no Internet yet (or only a slow dialup connection).

Thank you for the explanation of the SMB protocol.

far out you just took me back 30 years ago when i used to work in IT in my first job!

Fantastic! I love the level of detail, this video will be an evergreen video for explaining all of the SMB concepts and a great resource! One "fun" note, Samba 4.15.13 was the last version before SMB1 began to be deprecated. I host my SMB1 server on a Raspberry Pi, and as of Bookworm, the "shipped" Samba version is 4.17.x. As such, I've started to build Samba from source! I have a procedure for it if helpful.