macosx win 2k pro, sharing and printing problems..

[bloodyhell]

first of all, hi to everybody and sorry if my english is not correct, I'll try to do the best

Anyway in my dad's office we're still using filemaker pro 4 (very old I know but it still works) and win 2k on a couple of pc...

I'm trying to go back to macintosh (i'm using my ibook) and put FM pro 7 on mac and on the computers...

There's a big problem we've got now with fm pro 4, we use a network shared folder for the databases, and each pc has a printer shared attacched to it.

When we launch a script that changes the page setup (reducing for example) on a computer and the other one do the same the settings of the printer are set back to default (100%).

This is very annoying, and we didn't have this problem with win98 and fm pro 4.

I've read that with fm7 pro it's better to open a remote file and not leaving a shared folder, is that right?

But in this way if I'm right the "server" need to have already opened all the files we need on the client, how can I solve it?

And last question, there will be on the lan macosx and win2k pro, do you know if there are any problems?? I mean, scripts will work fine without changing them every times??

Thank you very much for your patience and ask me if don't understand my poor english...