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avenger216
11-29-2002, 03:25 PM
So im going to a lan tomorrow, but i have a slight problem. whenever i go to one i get internet acess, i get game connectivity, but i dont get file sharing, everyone can see everyone else exept, i can only see a few people, and the compays they actually arent connected.

im running win 2k, and again everything works exept i cant see anybody in netword neighborhood, but they see me and leach off me fine.
Commander Hunt
11-29-2002, 04:34 PM
I don't know but my Win2kPro is stupid like that too.

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Pommy
11-29-2002, 04:51 PM
How dare you insult Win2K. You deserve to be utterly annihilated.


...or something. http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif
avenger216
11-29-2002, 05:21 PM
and this helps how?
dalf
11-29-2002, 05:45 PM
Try using the \\ notation such as \\middleearth (my server computer name). Also make sure you are in the proper domain/workgroup.

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avenger216
11-29-2002, 05:46 PM
danke schön
Aglar
11-29-2002, 11:33 PM
If your HDD has a FAT32 partition and the otehrs are NTFS you can't access them.
Cool Matty
11-29-2002, 11:58 PM
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Aglar:
If your HDD has a FAT32 partition and the otehrs are NTFS you can't access them.</font>

Incorrect. That does not apply at all to networks. That only applies to different OS's on the same system seeing NTFS and FAT32.
avenger216
11-30-2002, 05:15 AM
i have ntfs and win2k as did half of the other people, the other half had ntfs and XP.
Commander Hunt
11-30-2002, 06:38 AM
Pom, lol It is the only thing I dislike about Win2k so don't go insane pal.

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Aglar
11-30-2002, 12:56 PM
I've never been able to access a machine with NTFS from a FAT32 system.
Pommy
11-30-2002, 01:28 PM
...that's because you can't. If you have XP and 2K running on a network with NTFS drives, there shouldn't be a problem.
Cool Matty
11-30-2002, 01:45 PM
I have .... I have never had a problem hooking my Win95 comp up with my computer here, and sharing files, and networking.
Aglar
11-30-2002, 02:08 PM
NTFS can access FAT32, but not vice versa.
Emon
11-30-2002, 03:39 PM
I've had 2K and 9x machines networked and they work fine. We've got it at school, too. Our once NT, now 2K (using NTFS) server has an 80 GB drive which each student has access to. The Win 95 machines can read and write to it fine.
Aglar
11-30-2002, 04:59 PM
Weird, I've never been able to.
Commander Hunt
11-30-2002, 05:57 PM
Neither have I http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif I can't even get the **** win2kPro machine to read off of the win9x, and win98SE compts http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif I spent days trying to do it but gave up because the networking protocols and shizz are different so I gave up.

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Emon
11-30-2002, 06:14 PM
It's the protocols or some other setup, then, not filesystems. Win 2K can read NTFS and FAT32 because it has support for them. Win 9x can't do NTFS because it doesn't have support for it. It works over a network because the Win 9x machine isn't what is accessing the NTFS partition across the network. All it does is send the data and the recieving OS does the rest.
avenger216
12-01-2002, 02:18 PM
it turns out it was a combination of AOL being cancerous, and not specifying a specific IP