Windows 98 File Sharing
The very first thing you will have to do is add a patch to your system in order to make it work with plain text passwords. In most cases you need only follow this link in order to get windows to install the patch for you. When you click on this link Windows will ask you if you want o download the file or to run it from its location. Select "Run the file from its location". Another message will ask you if you want to merge the file into your registry. Click OK to merge. Normally, making changes to the Registry requires you to reboot the machine but do not restart yet! You are going to make more changes that require the machine to be restarted later anyway.
Step by step instructions
Now you have to make an entry (IP address and name) for the machine you want to connect to in the system lmhosts file. In order to do this first you must select "Run..." from the Start menu
Next in the "Open" box of the Run dialog box type in "dosprmpt" and click on "OK". This will open up a DOS prompt window.
Inside the DOS prompt type in the path to your etc directory. On your machine it may look a little bit different from what is pictured. If you installed windows into a directory called "WINDOWS" you'll type in:

cd \WINDOWS

then start the DOS editor to edit the lmhosts file.. type in:

edit lmhosts
You will want to enter the IP address of the machine you want to connect to followed by the name of the machine. In the example to the right, we're connecting to saturn, so type in:

10.160.132.172 saturn

(For Titan type:

10.160.132.189 titan)

There is only a space between the IP address and the name. After that select exit from the file menu and then confirm that you want to save the file.

After saving the lmhosts file you must restart your machine before proceeding.
After logging in again (after rebooting), start up "Windows Explorer" and under the tools menu select "Map Network Drive"
In the Map Network Drive window select the drive letter you want to use (you can leave it as whatever default it picks up) and for the "Path" you should select the name you used in the lmhosts file (in this case saturn) and the share name (in this case your saturn username) So you would type in:

\\saturn\hartj01

Also make sure to click on "reconnect at logon" so that windows will attempt to make this connection each time you logon to windows.
You will probably then see a dialog box like that pictured to the right. In it you will want to fill in your username and the your password for the machine you are connecting to, then click on "ok"
Finally, windows will open up a window which shows the server volume. Notice the "Address" field indicates that it is connected to hartj01 on 'saturn'.

You will now be able to use the drive letter E: to gain access to the files on the server.

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