NTFS and FAT32 Question

[elroy]

I want to put Win2K on one of my machines that has 3 partitions. Is there any reason I shouldn't install Win2k with NTFS on C and use FAT32 on D and E? Since I have other FAT32 machines on the network I would like to have partitions on the Win2k machine that can be seen by the other machines with WinME on FAT32. Make any sense?

[PresterJohn]

the type of partition is insignificant if users are going to be accessing files/folders thru a share.

[John Prophet]

ya, over the network it doesnt matter what type of partition you have...that issue only comes into play usually if you have a dual boot system with a fat32 system like w98, and then you have a drive with ntfs stuff also...the fat32 wouldnt be able to see the ntfs stuff....but over a network it doesnt matter..cuz by then it has been changed into a networking protocol blah blah etc

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"Is there any reason I shouldn't install Win2k with NTFS on C and use FAT32 on D and E? "

well, of course the main reasons to use NTFS are to have the stronger ntfs permissions (and also compression if you want)