Turn on SBM in Windows 2000

[Redneck_Randy]

I have Google searched high and low on how to enable SMB in Win 2000 and everthing I tried  not work.  Trying to install Win 2000 in a VirtualBox

[Aaron44126]

Windows 2000 supports SMB out of the box, but it is SMB 1.0 which is not compatible with newer versions of Windows unless you go out of your way to enable SMB 1.0 on the new systems.  It's available in the "Turn Windows features on and off" control panel and disabled by default because of unfixable security vulnerabilities with that protocol.

[Redneck_Randy]

That's the problem for me,  there is no "Turn Windows features on and off" in the Control Panel

[Aaron44126]

This wouldn't be on the Windows 2000 side, but rather on the side of whatever system you are trying to talk to from your Win2K box.  You need to enable SMB 1.0 on the newer system in order to talk to it from Windows 2000.  (If I search "Turn Windows features" on my Windows 10 system, it pops right up.  You need to enable SMB 1.0 client and/or server, depending on which way you want traffic to go, but not the one about SMB 1.0 automatic removal.)