I've had my first in depth encounter with Windows XP and it wasn't pretty.

I'm trying to add an XP workstation to a three-station network with the main FoxPro 2.6 files on one of the workstations (Win 98). After I mapped drive J: to the C drive on the Win 98 machine, I encountered two problems.

1) Foxpro stuck with a "Too many files open" message after opening 9 files. In the past I have solved this problem by adding "FILES=128" to the CONFIG.SYS file. It didn't seem to help in this case.

2) After rebooting the XP machine, I started getting the message "The system has recovered from a serious error" with boxes to SEND or DON'T SEND the error info to Microsoft. This message would pop up every few seconds regardless of whether I pushed SEND or DON'T SEND. The workstation continued to run otherwise.

I thought the error was because I had messed with the CONFIG.SYS file, but it turned out to be the mapping that was doing it.

Anyone seen anything like this?

Peter Robinson