Re: XP install on a network

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 04/21/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 19:48:09 -0600

Greetings --

    The file systems on the various computers communicating over a
network are completely irrelevant, as none of the individual
computers' operating systems ever directly access the other computers'
hard drives. Instead, a computer sends a "request," if you will, for
the desired data, and the operating system of the host ("receiving")
computer accesses its own hard drive (whose file system it obviously
can read) and then sends that data back to the requesting computer as
neutral packets of information that are completely independent of the
file systems on the respective computers. After all, don't you use a
Windows-based PC (whether it's FAT32 or NTFS) to access data stored on
the Internet's mostly Unix servers, which use a completely different
file system?

Bruce Chambers 

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"Patty" <patty15NOSPAM@softhome.net> wrote in message 
news:c60k2k02ams@enews3.newsguy.com...
>I am planning on installing XP-Pro on a new computer I'm in the 
>process of
> building.  I currently have a wired network with one Windows 98SE 
> computer
> and one Windows ME computer.  If I want to network everyone together 
> so that
> they can all see and access info on each other, is it true that I 
> should use
> FAT32 for the XP computer?  I had read somewhere that the non-NTFS 
> computers
> would not be able to see files on the NTFS one but, the NTFS 
> computer would
> be able to see the files on the others.  Is this accurate?  Thanks.
>
> Patty
>
>

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