Windows 98 and NTFS

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Windows 98 and NTFS

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I have a Windows network, and on the network is a WinXP machine under a NTFS partition..On the same network I have a Win98SE machine under a FAT32 partition..I was wondering if there was someway the Win98SE machine could view the HDD of the WinXP machine?
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First off, there really isn't such a thing as a 'Windows Network', no matter how much Bill Gates would want you to believe it. :D

But anyway, isn't this as simple as setting up a share on either of your machines and making sure 'File and Print sharing' is enable on each box? Use the Windows help. It will tell you how to set it up. Once that's setup, go into 'Network Neighborhood' on Windows 9x and 'My Network Places' on Windoxs XP. If everything is correct you should see all of the shares on the network.

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That doesn't work. When I try to view the HDD on the XP machine, there is some error on the Win98SE machine, about privilages..but all privilages are set correct. I am convinced it is the NTFS, because I did have the XP machine on a FAT Partition, but I recently converted it to the NTFS.
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That has nothing to do with NTFS.
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But everything worked before I used NFTS. I didn't change any settings, just converted to NTFS and it stopped working.
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NTFS actually has filesystem permissions. FAT does not. Your permissions is the problem here. Just like the error message says.
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Post by BDKR »

Pyrite wrote:That has nothing to do with NTFS.
Exactly. NTFS, FAT (and all it's variants), ext2, ext3, etc..., are just drive formats. File sharing works over the network using a "PROTOCOL'. That being SMB. Also know as Samba in the 'nix crowd.

As for privileges: somewhere in your setup deeds did you ever right click on the drive and click on 'Sharing and security' (on XP) or 'Sharing' (9x)?

As a matter of fact, why don't you fing a good tutorial (or whatever) that will step you through this process. Google would be a good place to start. I will also say that there are some differences in how XP is able to handle SMB, but if you pay close attention you should still have no problem setting up the network to work correctly.

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Thank you!
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