mapped drive

[OKlier]

I remember reading somewhere that XP doesnt like to use
ME or earlier shares, i.e. peer to peer networks. Try
sharing a folder on one of the newer XP pro machines and
map it to your workstation. Reboot and see what happens.


>-----Original Message-----
>I have a small home office running 5 pc's 2 are older
>pc's running win xp home, 2 new pc's running xp home
with
>service pack 1 built in. and a file server running win
me
>a program I use has the data base on the file server we
>map a network drive to server and the program finds it
ok
>but if I reboot the new pc's the mapped drive fails to
>connect but it does not have that trouble on the 2 older
>pc's is there a patch out there?
>.
>

[Bob Willard]

OKlier wrote:
> I remember reading somewhere that XP doesnt like to use
> ME or earlier shares, i.e. peer to peer networks. Try
> sharing a folder on one of the newer XP pro machines and
> map it to your workstation. Reboot and see what happens.
>

Bogus. My XP HE PC has no problem with shares on my W2K PC
using NTFS, on my W98SE PCs using FAT32, or even on my antique
W95 PC using FAT16.
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Cheers, Bob