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How would a 32-bit server OS play with mixed 32/64-bit clients?

Hurricane Andrew

Hurricane Andrew

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Right now, I have a small home network running Longhorn Beta 3 (32-bit) and three clients, two 32-bit Vista and one 32-bit XP Pro. My network is a domain, with a single domain controller.

Two of the 3 clients are dual-boot, and I'm considering setting up a dual boot 32/64 bit Vista client to test the 64-bit waters. I want to tread lightly, and figure tackling 64 bit from the server side, with a beta server OS is a bit out there, even for me 😛

Does anyone have experience with a network containing a 32-bit server and at least 1 64-bit client? What are the issues, if any, that I should expect other than the typical 64-bit considerations?

Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated!
 
it's networking, the only bugs would be OS bugs. I don't think you should see many networking issues that are not pure 64 bit related (I know of none). The network doesn't care what your OS is
 
That's the beauty of networking, it doesn't even care what OS you are running. Be it 8 bit or 64 bit.

As long as it adheres to the protocols in question it doesn't matter.
 
I run a Server 2003 32-bit box, and had a XP 64-bit client on the network. No problems connecting, sharing files, joining the AD domain, etc.
 
That's the beauty of networking, it doesn't even care what OS you are running. Be it 8 bit or 64 bit.
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Actually it's the beauty of any standardized data format, TCP/IP just happens to be one of most common. =)
 
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