Davey Brain wrote:
[about miserable networking behavior between eCS & dozeXP]

You're right, eCS Peer sucks. I don't have any specific suggestions for
a known fix. I find my networking works fairly reliably most of the
time. The fly in the ointment here is if I try to keep WinXP up too long
at a time, when eCS will lose it. For me, fixing eCS means removing XP
from my network, then restarting Peer. I avoid that my unplugging the
network cable to my WinXP machine or shutting it down altogether when I
don't actually need it, which is most of the time.

I don't keep a W2K machine on very much at all, but can't remember ever
having any trouble between it and eCS.

As to seeing directories but not files I've not figured out the problem,
but it seems related to the number of files and directories and the
directory nesting level. IOW, partitions with fewer files and/or less
deeply nested directories seem not to acquire this affliction. My
workaround is when it happens to copy or move the hidden files to \,
then access them successfully from doze.

Something I do that seems to help is to turn off all my eCS uses when
not actually needed, and using the exact same letter Y: for any of them
that I need.

I hope someone has better suggestions for your immediate needs.

Ultimately you may find as I that the best place to keep your shared
files is on a box that runs a Linux version of Samba that is older than
version 3.0 and is set to be the preferred master. For me currently that
is SuSE 9.0, which runs Samba 2.2.8a. Most versions of Samba 3.x have
been patched to work better with WinXP, which breaks it with eCS. It
seems this may finally have been fixed with 3.0.14 versions, which comes
in distros released around spring 2005. It seems to be OK for me with
Mandrake 2005, which seems to not work right with eCS and NFS, which you
may not care about as long as Samba works. Fedora Core 4 & SuSE 9.3 both
were released after Mandrake 2005, and so should also work.

I've also seen suggested to use Netdrive instead of Peer, but haven't
tried it. http://www.blueprintsoftwareworks.com/netdrive/download.html
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