We used to have a win95 peer-to-peer network working perfectly with 8 computers connected
to a rj45 10bT hub. One of the machines crashed recently because the user deleted her
windows root folder from withing a dos session ;(( Knowing that we have to install
windows 98 to be Y2K compliant soon, I rebuilt the machine with windows 98. Since then
it's been nothing but sorrow.
The important thing to know is that a lot of our softwares are running in dos. So we have
a file server holding the databases for these software and everyone accesses them from
their machine. The Win98 machine keeps crashing.
My questions are :
- the file server is fat16 and the win98 machine is fat32 : can that explain the problems
?
- the reason for which we didn't have this setup in windows NT is simple : the programmers
told us it wouldn't work out. I personnaly would prefer a windows NT setup, much more
solid. Do you recommend against it since we use 16 bit apps in dos boxes ? But then again
things started crashing on that computer only after we rebuilt it with windows 98.
- here are two other changes we made when we rebuilt the machine :
-- patched the BIOS with the latest patch from Gigabyte's web site
-- installed more memory in the file server
-- installed more memory in the windows 98 machine
-- installed office 97 (WITHOUT SR-1 and SR-2) instead of office 95
My plan is :
- get an answer from you guys regarding the FAT32/FAT16 question
- depending on your answer to Win NT see if it could be an option
- do trial and error tests with the new memory added (removing it, testing for a day,
etc.)
- install office 97 patches
If you have any other suggestions, I'd be more than happy to hear about them.
Regards,
-Alain
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