Hi, our company has different operating systems, some computers have win98/95 and a few new pc's have win2000. The win2000 computers are not able to communicate in the LAN (which contains around 20 computers), we can see the win2000 computer, bet they can't see the other systems. Whenever one of those win2000 systems is selected in the network from another system, the computer just freezes for a minute looking for the path to that win2000 computer. Is it a conflict between operating systems? or?

What is the filesystem on the win2000 machine, if it is NTFS, the win 95 en 98 PC's will not see the NTFS disk.

Are these computers in a peer to peer or do they connect to a server. Is the server a PDC loggin into a Domain? Is the server a NT server or a 2000 Server? What are the protocols loaded on the workstations and server? Are they all part of the same domain and or workgroup? Thanks carlo

This could be due to the fact that 2000 and NT/95 etc, use different networking. 2000 uses kerboses and NT etc use NTLM, you need to make sure that the Local security policy in administrative tools is set correctly to allow NTLM access through to the 2000 machines. Hope this helps more info is available @ http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/techinfo/reskit/en/ProRK/prcf_omn_uefc.htm

It is absolutely incorrect that a PC with NTFS will not see a PC using a FAT file system. Just didn't want you thinking that might be the problem. NTFS formatted drives or volumes will not be seen by a FAT formatted OS in a dual boot scenario...but this is because they exist on the same machine...across a network connection they will see each other fine. -MW