Hey Andy, The two different disk formats don't make a difference -- I'm doing exactly what you want to do right now -- my main machine is on Wink2k with NTFS and the computer upstairs is networked -- its Win98 with Fat32 and it works fine -- you just have to specify which folders you want to share or not. ~Lacey~ ----- Original Message ----- From: Barnstoneworth <barneystorm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Friday, September 19, 2003 8:21 am Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Networking > I'm going to attempt something at the weekend that I haven't done > before! > To get my daughter off my PC ('It's homework, Dad!!' she says) I'm > going to > set up a small home wireless network so she can use our broadband > cableconnection on her own PC (With the necessary blocking > software in place, of > course ;-)) and also to print directly to my printer-There maybe a > smallamount of file sharing too, but not much. > > I've had a look around at what I need..it looks like a wireless > router with > a cable connection to my PC (as now) and a wireless receiver > upstairs for > her PC. > > All that should go just fine, but one thing I've just realised > that my PC is > Windows 2000 on NTFS, hers in Windows 98 on FAT32..This is going > to cause > problems when sharing files, isn't it? > > I have created a FAT32 partition on the new hard drive I've just > installed,so might that help? > > Cheers > > > Andy > > > > > To unsub or change your email settings: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > > To access our Archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ > //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > > For more info: > //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk > > To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk