>> windows drives don't store ownership of files... try what I said
>> above.

RG> NTFS does. doesn't it?

JB> hmm, yeah, maybe it does... but AIUI the uniwankers haven't
JB> figured how to safely write to NTFS drives yet. So I'm guessing
JB> Bob's troublesome volume is FAT-32

 The files are FAT32 (and FAT16), but Win98 identifies them as NTFS
over the network. I have one partition formatted FAT16, and the Win98
partiton is FAT32.

 WfW, Notepad-32, and the 16-bit programs read and write to both
partitions without any trouble. WORD2000 barfs when I try to save
changes, giving a message saying it can't create the file because it's
out of memory, or the *disk* is full or write-protected. 32-bit WRITE
tries to save but sends the file into cyberspace. 

 Aha! I wonder if NTFS is what's causing Word 2000 to barf when it
tries to write changes? WfW wouldn't have a clue about NTFS, so it
just goes ahead and does it... and it works because it isn't really
NTFS!

 I wonder which end is calling it NTFS: Samba or Win98? In Linux, I
mount the windows drives as vfat.

 At least it gives me a new clue to start chasing... thanks for that.

Regards,
Bob


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