Recently, I had the opportunity to work with a Windows 95 environment. Of course, there are significant security concerns with both Windows 95 and a QNAP with reduced security levels, so I made sure to physically disconnect the network.
However, when connecting to the NAS, the disk capacity increases dramatically compared to what is available with Windows 95 alone.
I would greatly appreciate any advice or countermeasures you could share. I am willing to go as far as downgrading the firmware to make this work. If anyone has an old version of the firmware, I would be very grateful for your help.
Since I don’t know the situation (I’m not sure what you’re having trouble with), I can’t say if this is accurate feedback, but regarding Windows 95 and disk capacity, I think there were probably limitations like 2GB or 32GB back in the Windows 95 era.
(If I remember correctly, this was mainly because the version of IO commands it could handle was old, so the addressable range was narrow.)
Even with other versions of Windows, if you connected a disk larger than 2TB, I think it would recognize only the portion of the capacity that is the remainder after dividing by 2TB, which led to some interesting behaviors.
There might be similar limitations when accessing network folders as well.
Aside from capacity, if SMB1 is enabled, I think you should be able to access it… but I’m not entirely sure.
Also, authentication might not work unless LANMAN authentication is enabled.