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2.4 Using MsgEd TE and other Fido software in networked environments

Sysops that have more than one computer often use network filesystems like SMB (also known as Lan Manager, OS/2 peer services, the Windows Network, et cetera), Novell or NFS to share their message base among multiple computers. Depending on your environment, there are some problems buried into this approach that might cause hidden data loss and might be unaware to you. These problems are not specific to MsgEd TE, but pertain to any Fidonet software that uses the Squish, JAM or Hudson message base format. I feel enforced to devote a section of this documentation to these problems to save you from encoutering severe unexpected problems in your installation, especially as with the addition of Linux or Unix to such a network, the problems tend to increase dramatically. - Another issue in such networks, case sensitivity problems, as already been described above (see About Case Sensitivity Problems).