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Druid:
Thanks for the info, lots of stuff I did not know.
If I understand this correctly, Windows can not read native linux filesystems, so it will not be able to read files from the linux box *unless* there is a MS DOS FAT16/32 partition on it. When I partitioned my linux drives I made a small DOS partition for this reason - it will be my "Shared" drive.
Druid
lost:
quote:Originally posted by Druid:
Thanks for the info, lots of stuff I did not know.
If I understand this correctly, Windows can not read native linux filesystems, so it will not be able to read files from the linux box *unless* there is a MS DOS FAT16/32 partition on it. When I partitioned my linux drives I made a small DOS partition for this reason - it will be my "Shared" drive.
Druid
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You are correct in this, Windows does not read ext2/3 or some of the more rad filesystem types like xfs. But there is a solution, Small Message Block. SMB is what you have come to know as Microsoft Networking. The Unix implementation is called Samba (http://www.samba.org). Your distribution should come with this or should at least have a package to install. You can run the server from the linux box and Windows will see the shares from Network Neighborhood. You can copy, move, edit, delete, whatever via the shares since its happening over SMB and not ext2 or fat16. Or you can do reverse. Share drives on your windows computer and use the SMB client tools to mount the shares on your Linux Box. Make sure to have SMB compiled into your kernel, some distros dont have it by default. If you want a graphical Network Neighborhood for linux check out LinNeighborhood of freshmeat. But im sure Mandrake and Redhat and SuSE already come with something like that.
Read the samba server installation stuff or the samba client stuff depending on how you want to do things.
lost:
quote:Originally posted by Druid:
Thanks for the info, lots of stuff I did not know.
If I understand this correctly, Windows can not read native linux filesystems, so it will not be able to read files from the linux box *unless* there is a MS DOS FAT16/32 partition on it. When I partitioned my linux drives I made a small DOS partition for this reason - it will be my "Shared" drive.
Druid
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Maybe i should learn to fucking read, what a retard i am. Im going off on shaing network drives and your talking about local drives. Tard is I. Compile MSDOS support into your kernel and automounter support and you can mount /dev/hd[device][partition number] /[directory on your computer]. Sorry for being a gotard.
Druid:
lost:
You were right first time, I am talking about network drives. I have a Win2k box and a linux box, connected with a crossover cable. I know linux can read most filesystems, and I know Win* thinks it is the only OS in the world so it doesn't even try to understand anything else.
When I installed Mandrake I set up a 500Mb FAT partition so that Win* would be able to understand something on the linux box, to make file transfers easier.
I am a complete newbie to linux, so I'm still trying to figure out how to get things working the way I would like them. Mind you, I've only had a couple of years using Win*, since my Amiga finally stopped coping :(
dbl221:
Has anyone been able to mount an NTFS partition to Linux?????
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