Subj : A rather general question To : Gerald Miller From : Roy Witt Date : Sat Jul 03 2004 07:34 pm 29 Jun 04 19:06, Gerald Miller wrote to Roy Witt: RW>> I have 4 machines on a network with W2k on a P-IV @ 2.8ghz as the RW>> main dude, 2 using W98SE and one with Lindows on it and a P3-500 RW>> waiting for a HD before it gets on the network. I've found the RW>> easiest way to copy from one machine to the next is to use Windows RW>> Explorer, make a folder identically named, or not, on the recieving RW>> machine and highlight the files in the folder to be copied or use RW>> 'select all' and right clicking on the highlighted files and move RW>> them to the new folder. RW>> As for the 3.11 machine, I don't know much about that OS as I jumped RW>> from DOS right into W98.. GM> You're light years ahead of me hardware wise... :o) A few weeks ago, I set an old 486 at the curb as 'free' for the taking. GM> It took me almost two years (off and on) to get WfW3.11 on the GM> network [okay, the INet] because the particular NIC that I was trying GM> to use had some flaws in the driver information file and the company GM> was not willing to spend resources to support an OS that is so GM> outdated. I wound up trashing the NIC in favor of one that has WfW GM> drivers [Netgear]. At that point, I would have trashed the OS too. GM> Eventually, I want to move my Fidonet software over to the Windows GM> 98SE box because it is my understanding that W98SE is the last GM> version of Windows to have any support for DOS. Ummm. No, I have occasion to use DOS and there's a DOS prompt icon on my W2K desktop. (there are things I can do faster by dropping to a DOS prompt, rather than look around W2k and wasting my time. GM> My options were to buy a USB card and try to burn all the programs GM> onto CDs using my external burner [kind of "iffy" because I have no GM> idea if the burner software will install within 3.11] or set up some GM> kind of network on the DOS box. Since I had 3.11 (never really used GM> it), I figured that would be the easiest way to proceed (another GM> misconception) because all versions of Windows #_should_# communicate GM> with one another...... I had a similar problem trying to marry that 486 DOS 6.2 machine to a W98SE machine. Finally gave up and installed W95 on the DOS machine. What a slug. I then replaced the DOS/W95 machine with a Pentium II w/W98SE and I use it now as the internet mailer/reader for Fidonet. It's so faithful, it just sits in a corner on an old desk and has about a 1/4" of dust all over it. GM> Your idea of identically named folders on all the machines may have GM> some merits, but it is my plan to name the folders relevant to the GM> machine they reside on, i.e.: "W98 Hold", "XP Hold", etc. I have one folder that gets relavant files put into it, that is accessable by all of the machines on the LAN. I call it 'Put Fidonet Sh*t Here'... I'm the editor of a local car club newsletter and I have these folders under 'My Documents' that keep things straight by using the same file naming procedure as you find with fidonews; CCN0407.DOC, which tells me it's the july issue for 2004's Camaro Corral Newsletter (reading it backwards, of course). Each file is kept in a folder with the same name in the Camaro Corral Newsletter folder. I go through the same procedure every month, trying to figure out what I did last month to make it work. I have too many folders and can't remember where everything is! GM> I'll need some time to get my ducks in a row (set up the folders, set GM> the folder properties to share, etc., etc.)... Hmmm, a job that's never done...good luck. .... Danger! **Attention Span Exceeded!** --- Z28ROY - AIM Buddy * Origin: Califia's Devil Star * (1:10/22) .