>Some of these threads go back a while. Does anyone have any recent
>experience with peer-to-peer (Win98 2nd Edition or NT Workstation 4.0?).
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>NT Workstation would obviously be more stable and I presume would provide some protection against killing the network if, for instance, VFP or Word locks up. Is its peer networking also more robust than Win98?
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>If you absolutely have to run P2P, I wouldn't consider doing this on anything >besides NT or 2000. Windows 95/98 >WILL< crash on you at the worst possible >time and corrupt data. Every app where I ran peer-to-peer I ended up >regretting. Customers who promised that they wouldn't shut off their machine >w/o making sure everyone was out of their programs always seem to forget about >doing that. This was especially bad when the machines were separated by any >distance.

I would second what Paul says.

When you run an application over a network, the "server" is the machine is that tracks open file handles and record locks. Win9X is not robust enough to handle any more than 2 or 3 users accessing 80 or 90 files each. NT can handle this easily.