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Software / Setting up a network.

« on: February 28, 2004, 05:42:00 AM »

Thanks for your reply Neo. Great news that the OS's will work together, not too bothered about sharing files as long as they can share the connection.

As I only have one NIC in each PC and need to connect my cable modem to one, I will try to use the small hub I got when I was sharing my PC with XBox live.

Thanks again, and I will let you know how it goes.

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Software / Setting up a network.

« on: February 27, 2004, 01:25:01 PM »

Hi guys,

I am quite new to networks (well very new), and *hoped* to setup a peer to peer between my two PCs so they could both share my broadband connection.

My problem is, one PC is using Windows 98 with the FAT32 file system, and the other is Windows XP, using NTFS. Do the operating systems have to be the same in order to share resources and do they have to be using the same file system?

If so, I know Windows XP can probably be setup to use FAT32 (but obviously not a preferable choice), but does Windows 98 support NTFS?

Like I said, I have little to no experience setting up a network and so what I said above may not be relevant at all, but wanted to find out before I went any further.

Thanks for listening, and will be grateful for any advice about setting this up!