"John Clark" <fredclark@consltec.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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In article <sRSgb.171775$JA5.4295091@news.xtra.co.nz>, ~misfit~
<~misfit~@his-desk.com> writes

Not true. Well, it is true that the Win98 PC can't read NTFS drives but

in a

network environment it doesn't read the drives directly but gets the data

>from the OS on the PC it's accessing. Therefore the Win98 PC *can* 'see'

the

data or whatever on the 2K PC.

Bugger!! My mis-assumption cost me considerable time over the years. The
Queue set up now enjoyed is fine, and I appreciate it. Pity I did not
try it earlier : ((

:-)

Glad I could help. I used to have the same assumption as you did until
someone put me straight on this. I had a mixed environment of 98 and XP
machines on my home LAN and, on the XP machines, always used FAT32 instead
of NTFS for this very reason. Now I use NTFS wherever possible and all's
fine. I can access data on NTFS partitions from the 98 machines.
--
~misfit~


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