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Dumbest Question of the Year!

Pghpooh

Pghpooh

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HI
I have access to three computers. One machine is running win98se. The second is running winXP installed using fat32. The third machine is running winXP using ntfs.
Can a file made using win98se be read on the two winXP machines? And, can a file made on the winXP using ntfs be read and used on the other two machines??
I've read the FAQ's and the Microsoft Knowledge Base and got myself so confused I was mumbling to myself!! LOLOL
At this point in time,,, I need the simplest answer I can get. The machines do not belong to me and I hesitate to experiment as I don't want to cause any problems on the machines.
Thanks
Pghpooh
 
Seriously, if you are Simple File Sharing in WinXP (which is the default) then all you have to do is share the folders you want others to be able to access and you are good to go. If you are not using Simple File Sharing then you will need to set permissions on the files and folders you want to share to allow others to access them. This is true for the NTFS system. When it comes to sharing on the FAT32 systems all you need to do is share the folder and you are still good to go.

I hope this is a little more helpful for you. 🙂
 
"can a file made on the winXP using ntfs be read and used on the other two machines??"

If you want to know why, (and I'm sure you already thought of this but just wanted to be sure). It's because when you share a an NTFS file on an XP/2000 system it is the XP/2000 system that reads the file off the the disc and transmits it over the network. If you booted up into Win98 on the same system that has the NTFS data(in a separate partition or a seperate drive) on it then you then Win98 won't be able to read the data off the disc. So the key is to have either XP/2000 or NT booted up and running on the machine that has the NTFS, and that the files are shared.

An good example is a typical college network where people are sharing stuff off of their computers. You could be in Win98 and read files shared by people using XP/NTFS and you wouldn't even know that they are using NTFS, because to your computer it is just data coming from the network.
 
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