Revised: 24 Feb 2018 - Design and Content © 1996-2018 Bernard Veasey - All rights reserved.
First of all on RISC OS, make sure you have configured
LMtransport to IP. To view this setting type:
To set, use *confugure LMtransport IP
This is how you set up a LanMan98 share:
This is the displayed name shown in the LanMan98
window, so call it something relevant to the share on your
This is the name of the Windows computer. You can find
this by clicking ‘Start’, then right clicking ‘Computer’, then
clicking ‘Properties’. You will then see it displayed in the
resulting window after ‘Computer name:’.
Make sure you have edited your RISC OS Hosts file to
show the IP address and name of your Windows PC.
192.168.1.50 PCname (Acer8106 in this example)
I always avoid spaces in the Windows name.
This is the share name of the Windows folder you want
to share. It is best to avoid spaces when creating this
name. The example ‘MySharedDocs’ is the share name
of a folder called ‘MySharedDocs’ in the root directory of
the Windows hard disc which is usually drive C but could
equally be drive D etc if preferred.
This is the username of the Windows logged on user.
You can see what this is by clicking ‘Start’ and looking at
the name at the top of the right hand column.
This is the Windows password associated with the above
This is normally ticked. See LanMan98 manual for
Tick this for LanMan98 to remember the above
password. Untick this for the user to manually enter the
password each time the share is joined.
Using Windows 7, 8 or 10
When setting up networking on the Windows PC, set as
‘WORKGROUP’ and set the 'Work' network profile.
In the 'Advanced sharing settings' (Home/Work and
Turn on network discovery.
Turn on file and printer sharing.
Turn on sharing so anyone with network
access can read and write files in the
Media streaming is off.
Enable file sharing for devices that use 40
or 56 bit encryption.
Turn off password protected sharing
Use user accounts and passwords to
connect to other computers (optional).
The Windows 7/8/10 PC has a manual IP address set in
the TCP/IPv4 setting. It is set as a 'Work' network.
The Windows 7/8/10 PC Homegroups are turned OFF
(as they are for connecting to other Windows 7/8/10
PCs) but having it switched ON does not stop LanMan98
The shared folder I have set up is - D:\MySharedDocs -
on the Windows 7/8/10 PC and it has permissions set up
for 'everyone' to allow 'Full control', 'read' and 'change'.
No spaces should be used in the folder name.
Set up the Windows shared folder in the following way:
Right click folder to be shared (eg.
Share with > Specific people
Choose 'Everyone' from drop down list.
Set ‘Everyone’ to 'Read/Write'.
The following method of sharing a folder seems to fail:
Right click folder to be shared (eg. D:\MySharedDocs)
Properties > Sharing > Advanced sharing
Tick 'Share this folder' > Permissions > Everyone
Set 'Full control', 'read' and 'change' to be ticked.
You may also have to ‘allow’ or ‘deny’ the share using
your third-party Internet security software. For reference,
I use Bullguard Internet Security on the Windows PC.
If you use Kaspersky Internet Security 2014 you will
need to set the following settings to ‘Allow’.
Settings > Protection Centre > Firewall > Packet Rules
Local Services (TCP) - Allow
Local Services (UDP) - Allow
Make sure all the ‘Advanced Sharing Settings’ as
above are set correctly as the Windows 10 upgrade
alters them and you will get the ‘Access Denied’ error.
Windows 10 updates may also alter these settings, so be
sure to check this if the LanMan98 connection stops
If you get the error: ‘Connection reset by peer’, go to:
Control Panel > Programs & Features > Turn Windows
Features On or Off > SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support
> SMB 1.0/CIFS Server
and make sure it is ticked, then Restart your Windows
Apple Mac with Windows 10 on Parallels
If you are running Windows 10 on a Mac using Parallels,
to make it work properly, you have to select 'Default
Parallels > Settings > Hardware > Network 1
In previous version of Parallels, this was the default
setting, but in the latest release it defaults to 'Shared
network', which doesn't work as we want it to.
Connecting a RISC OS computer running LanMan98 to a Windows 7, 8 or 10 PC
Using LanMan98 2.06 on
RISC OS 5.22 (Iyonix) 5.23 (ARMX6)
and RISC OS 5.23 (Raspberry Pi)
I recommend the use of Classic Shell
to enable the use of a desktop Start Menu
etc when using Windows 8.1 and 10