Following Bills suggestion to compare the results of ifconfig with ipconfig and winipfcg under M$ I found more information available under Linux. I looked at the info for the network card in the M$ drivers. It was set up for half duplex under M$ (I changed it to full). I don't know if the software would affect hardware settings at this point. If I change it under M$ would it change under Linux?
BTW, the card is a Realtek RTL8029(AS) which gets seen in Linux as an NE2K-PCI.
More things to report... I transfered around 10 large files in the space of a couple of hours (even allowing for the crashes from M$). Transfer was a single file at a time. Under Linux three simultaneous files takes 18 - 21 hours.
After transferring the files (and getting numerous complaints about the C: drive running out of space although it was downloading to G:), I decided to muck around with the Network places icon. I mangage to set up access to the ftp server as a desktop window. I'll play around with it later. Any advice for getting something similar running under Linux?
Later Mike