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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Peakoverload" data-source="post: 389431" data-attributes="member: 27271">A bit complicated this so bare with me.I need to kind of network my iMac with a PC laptop BUT in a slightly unusual way.There are two programs that I need to run but that are only available for the PC. One of them, SADiE, is a professional audio editing application with dedicated hardware that now just uses USB2.0. To keep costs down the idea is to run this on my iMac under Boot Camp as initial tests under Parallels didn't work that well.The other program is one called EasePublisher (not a commercially available product) that is only available for the PC and requires a USB dongle for activation. This would be installed on a dedicated PC as I need to run both applications at the same time and don't want any problems with slow downs/crashes etc etc.So far so simple.The potential tricky part is to do with hard drives.Basically I will be bringing work home for use on the above systems on a removable drive. This removable drive will have to be formatted as either NTFS (preferred) or FAT32 as this drive has to work with all the PC systems we have at work. When I bring this drive home though it needs to be accessed by both the iMac and the PC laptop at the same time (both read & write).So questions:1. Will Windows XP under Boot Camp read/write to NTFS or am I still restricted to FAT32 as under OSX?2. If I share the drive from either in the iMac or the laptop and network the two computers together will both computers be able to read and write to the drive at the same time or will there be a permissions problem? In the past I have tried sharing an internal drive on one PC and having that PC and another  PC write to the drive at the same time but got a permissions problem.3. Would I be better off going with a NAS drive?Cheers</blockquote>

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