Upgraded to XP

Thank you to everyone who helped me previously on this forum. I took the
plunge and reformatted my hard drive. No more Windows Me. No dual booting.
Clean install of XP Pro as NTFS. Wish me luck because I don't know much
about XP and this is a challenge. I can't find anything! The interface is
completely different, and so are the options. I wonder what changes I make
as administrator will still be there when I sign on with less privileges.

Believe it or not, the home network works between my XP machine and the
WinMe computer in the other room, at least to some extent. We can both
access the DSL modem (router), and I can access his files but he can't
access mine because my drive is NTFS. When I hook up my second hard drive
(FAT32), I hope he'll be able to access those files. I have not set up any
user accounts on his machine, and I don't know if I need to do so or not. I
did set him up as a user on this machine and made an XP network setup disk
that was run on his machine.

I have not figured out how to hook up the Win95a laptop yet because the XP
networking wizard doesn't support Win95. (It is for Win98 and higher.) The
Win98se laptop has not been hooked up either. I'll be visiting the XP forums
more often now. This Me forum will still be helpful for configuring the
networked Me machine and for any additional problems that occur.

Not being able to access your NTFS HD has noting to do with the filesystem -
and a lot to do with Windows XP networking
You need to enable Simple FileSharing on the XP machine for the ME machine
to be able to see the XP HD.


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"ForestSpirit" wrote in message
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Thank you to everyone who helped me previously on this forum. I took the
plunge and reformatted my hard drive. No more Windows Me. No dual booting.
Clean install of XP Pro as NTFS. Wish me luck because I don't know much
about XP and this is a challenge. I can't find anything! The interface is
completely different, and so are the options. I wonder what changes I make
as administrator will still be there when I sign on with less privileges.

Believe it or not, the home network works between my XP machine and the
WinMe computer in the other room, at least to some extent. We can both
access the DSL modem (router), and I can access his files but he can't
access mine because my drive is NTFS. When I hook up my second hard drive
(FAT32), I hope he'll be able to access those files. I have not set up any
user accounts on his machine, and I don't know if I need to do so or not.
I
did set him up as a user on this machine and made an XP network setup
disk
that was run on his machine.

I have not figured out how to hook up the Win95a laptop yet because the XP
networking wizard doesn't support Win95. (It is for Win98 and higher.) The
Win98se laptop has not been hooked up either. I'll be visiting the XP
forums
more often now. This Me forum will still be helpful for configuring the
networked Me machine and for any additional problems that occur.

I can access his files but he
can't access mine because my drive is NTFS.

I'm sorry but that is incorrect. The filing system in use on a remote PC
such as that running XP is irrelevant to the host PC, that is the one
running Win Me since all file handling on the remote computer is handled
by the remote computer. For example a vast amount of the pages you read
on the web are hosted on machines running a variation of the Unix
operating system. If the Win Me PC cannot access files on the PC running
XP this could be for any of a number of reasons including not having
configured sharing correctly and not having XP's firewall configured to
allow the Win Me PC to access the XP PC, etc.

I wish you the best of luck with your new system. I'm sure you'll get the
hang of it soon. There is absolutely no need to run the XP network wizard
on any PC other than that running XP. For example run the Win Me
networking wizard on the Win Me PC.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



ForestSpirit wrote:

Thank you to everyone who helped me previously on this forum. I took
the plunge and reformatted my hard drive. No more Windows Me. No dual
booting. Clean install of XP Pro as NTFS. Wish me luck because I
don't know much about XP and this is a challenge. I can't find
anything! The interface is completely different, and so are the
options. I wonder what changes I make as administrator will still be
there when I sign on with less privileges.

Believe it or not, the home network works between my XP machine and
the WinMe computer in the other room, at least to some extent. We can
both access the DSL modem (router), and I can access his files but he
can't access mine because my drive is NTFS. When I hook up my second
hard drive (FAT32), I hope he'll be able to access those files. I
have not set up any user accounts on his machine, and I don't know if
I need to do so or not. I did set him up as a user on this machine
and made an XP network setup disk that was run on his machine.

I have not figured out how to hook up the Win95a laptop yet because
the XP networking wizard doesn't support Win95. (It is for Win98 and
higher.) The Win98se laptop has not been hooked up either. I'll be
visiting the XP forums more often now. This Me forum will still be
helpful for configuring the networked Me machine and for any
additional problems that occur.