Hello. With the advent of Microsofts removal of the SMB1 client protocol from Win11 PCs we'll be losing our ability to drop CNC jobs from our network (Seiki PCs) to approx 12 Mazak milling machines.
These Mazaks are linked via ethernet and all have static IPs and can be accessed from any PC on the network via their C drives.
Currently their is a workaround on the Win 11 PCs by re-enabling the SMB1 Client Windows feature. But on every restart of these PCs SMB1 access is lost and you have to re-enable the feature again. At some point this feature is going to be switched off altogether by Microsoft.
I'm looking at alternative ways of dropping jobs onto the Mazaks, have looked at FTP as Win95 has a built in FTP server but it needs installing via the Network services Client additions. This is where I come unstuck as its asking for an installation disk and the file "idnpndi.dll". I've since found out this is part of an update file "winnfs.inf". I'm struggling to find a copy of this.
Any ideas or alternative solutions?