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  1. May 10th, 2004, 10:50 AM #1
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    Question xp and 98 logon

    i have a win xp home machine with all accounts on it 40gb hdd

    i just got a win 98 machine and would like to know if it is possable to log on to my account on the 98 machine if someones using my other computer


    Or on my xp machine i have my account documents and settings folder which has been made private for me only is there a way to keep the folder private but get to it from the 98 machine using a password
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  2. May 10th, 2004, 11:07 PM #2
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    Could u please tell me How
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    i mean my files are private but i want to access them on a different machine over my network

    but i still want them private so could i use a password
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    tommy101 - sorry. My bad. I re-read your initial post and see that you have XP-home. What you want to do is dead easy with XP-pro but home is a little tougher and unfortunately I don't have an XP-home system to test things on.

    It should still be possible but have to approach things a little differfently.

    How have you protected the information from other users who log on to the XP-home system?

    Are you running FAT32 or NTFS?
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    The Xp Home is NTFS

    The 98 Is FAT32

    I made my files private in the my documents ans settings folder
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  9. May 15th, 2004, 09:12 PM #8
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    If the XP drive is formatted with NTFS, the 98 computer will not be able to read it.
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    Originally posted by Spooky Man G
    If the XP drive is formatted with NTFS, the 98 computer will not be able to read it.
    The file systems are irrelevant over the network. Every computer over the network can read their own disk. These restrictions don’t apply if you are configuring computers on the network. You will not have a problem networking a machine that uses FAT32 and another computer running NTFS.
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    well, I didnt know that (obviously...)
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    TCP/IP levels that Fat32/NTFS problem to non existant.
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