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Network Attached Floppy Experiment

You know how you can create a network drive in windows, map it on another computer And access the drive via another machine? Well do you think it will work with a floppy? Lets find out.

This is the "test-bench" there are 2 computers, The one on the right that's running XP is the one that im creating network floppy drive on, other one on the left that's running 10 is one i wana access floppy on.

Just don't look behind the desk... cable management isn't really my thing. (that drone back there is not mine)

We will call 10 machine "TSA-SERVER" (has dual xeon cpus) and XP machine "TSA-SFF" (stands for Small Form Factor) they are called TSA because they were originally used for TSA.

TSA-SERVER (left) = system i want to access floppy on
TSA-SFF (right) = system that has the floppy and will have the "network floppy" mapped

simple. right? yes and no.

It would have been easy, if i could get the machines to talk to eachother via ethernet.

Here is everything i did (so far) :

setup network floppy? check.
connected both machines via ethernet? check.

The orange light is on (on TSA-SERVER), and the green light is blinking in a pattern.

On TSA-SFF, theres just a solid orange light.

Ran ipconfig command in cmd to see if i have a ip? check.

We get a IP on TSA-SERVER

(if your tech illiterate, IP address is in red)

But on TSA-SFF, nothing shows up. -- even tried pinging TSA-SERVER

Even tried to connect to the network path (it has worked before)

I have no idea how to fix this, I will have to work on this next week. will post update.

UPDATE: forgot to install ethernet drivers.

this was written on 1/12/24.