Re: Networking NTSF and FAT32
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:06:18 -0700
Andrew E. wrote:
> Usually its the other way around..ntfs can read FAT32,FAT32 cant read
> ntfs.
More nonsense from Andrew E., our resident provider of misinformation.
FAT32 and NTFS are file systems. File systems don't read files, operating
systems do.
Windows XP can read NTFS, FAT12, FAT16, or FAT32 in any and all
combinations, regardless of what file system it itself is installed on.
A computer running Windows 98, for example, can't locally read from an NTFS
partition, but that's a limitation of Windows 98, not of FAT32.
Moreover, in KSB's situation, it doesn't matter at all. He's taklking about
reading files across a network. When you read files across a network, the
file system doesn't matter at all, because it's just the data which is
transferred across the network, not its underlying file system. Windows 98
(which can *not* read NTFS files natively) has no problem accessing files
across the network, even if they are stored on NTFS devices.
--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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> "KSB" wrote:
>
>> I am networking two computers. I have no problems reading disks and
>> partitions back and forth except for one partition, which happens to
>> be fat32. I cannot read this one partition from the other computer.
>> I have checked to make sure all permissions are OK.
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