I'm really not getting this.  When I set up a multi-boot machine for my
former employer, my boss wanted NT, '95 and '98 on his system.  I built it
up from scratch - quite a learning process but that's another story.
 Anyway, what I discovered was I could not "see" a FAT32 partition from
w/in a NTFS partition.  I configured two machines peer-to-peer in that
office.  The other machine was strictly NT Workstation using NTFS.  For
them to share their data, I had to put the data on a FAT16 partition so the
two users could "see" the data no matter what partition they were in at the
time.

I found I literally could not "see" a FAT32 partition ("drive") if I was
booted into NT.  I know I'm missing something here.  Can someone explain to
me why I saw this?  The same issue came up in my Networking Essentials
class the other night and I left there still not understanding why I am
being told it doesn't matter what file system the computers are using in
the face of my having experienced what seems to be contrary to that.

Joan Rapier
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There was recently a thread [it comes up periodically] about whether
FAT32 drives are accessible over the net from machines that don't speak
FAT32.  The answer was yes, because the sharing is done at the file
system (files and directories) level and NOT at the device (physical
drive) level.

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