RE: [Samba] 2 HD, same PC

[Richardson, Anthony]

Behalf Of Bryan Peifer
 I have two hard drives on one PC.  One is a Windows XP drive and the 
 other is a Linux (redhat 9.0) drive.  I want Linux to recognize and 
 share files on the XP drive.  Where is there documentation addressing 
 this situation?  Because now I work mostly with my Linux 
 environment, I 
 wanted to access the XP drive from Linux.

As an alternative to mounting your Windows partition under Linux, you
can
run colinux under Windows.  You then have both OSes running at the same
time.  Since colinux has a virtual network card you can then use samba
to
mount the shared Windows partition under colinux.  You can set up
colinux
to mount a native Linux partition as its / partition.  I currently do
this
with a native Fedora Core 2 install.  By enabling XMDCP on the X display
manager and using the cygwin X server I get the same graphical work
environment as under a native Linux boot.  Getting colinux set up isn't
that difficult and I've been amazed at colinux performance.

As I re-read the previous paragraph before sending I would have to
admit that getting NTFS support in the Linux kernel may be easier, but
what does that have to do with samba? :-)

Tony Richardson
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[Samba] 2 HD, same PC

[Bryan Peifer]

Hello,
I have two hard drives on one PC.  One is a Windows XP drive and the 
other is a Linux (redhat 9.0) drive.  I want Linux to recognize and 
share files on the XP drive.  Where is there documentation addressing 
this situation?  Because now I work mostly with my Linux environment, I 
wanted to access the XP drive from Linux.

Bryan Peifer
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Re: [Samba] 2 HD, same PC

[Rohan Gilchrist]

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Bryan Peifer wrote:
Hello,
I have two hard drives on one PC.  One is a Windows XP drive and the other is 
a Linux (redhat 9.0) drive.  I want Linux to recognize and share files on the 
XP drive.  Where is there documentation addressing this situation?  Because 
now I work mostly with my Linux environment, I wanted to access the XP drive 
from Linux.

Bryan,
What is the file system of you XP drive? If it is FAT or FAT32, then this is easy.
#mount -t vfat /dev/hdx /mnt/whatever
Where x is the letter of the drive. If XP is the first drive, then it will most likely
be /dev/hda1, if it's the second drive, then /dev/hdb1, or /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1 if 
they're
scsi drives.
If the XP drive has the NTFS file system, then you're going to have more work on 
your hands.
There's a patch that can allow the linux kernel to read NTFS file systems, but I 
haven't used it
in a while and I can't remember where it can be found.
Alternatively, you can recompile your kernel to allow it to read NTFS file systems 
(again something
I haven't done for a while), but from memory, mounting an NTFS file system with 
read/write access is
dangerous (loss of data possible).
Hope this helps.
Rohan Gilchrist 
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0412 648 909

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