On 2001/06/02 - 10:05:56 Evan James DeHate wrote:
> I've seen similar weirdness, but with the version 2.0.
> Maybe you could...
> - Set up your windows partition as a samba share, and then
> access it through Network Neighborhood in win4lin3.
> or
> - Take the plunge: Just do everything on the linux side. Use your
> real win98 for just games? :-) I'm trying. Time will tell if it
> works.
>
> E. DeHate
>
> Narayan Venkat wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a dual boot system running Win 98 and Redhat
> > Linux 7.1. I just installed Win4Lin 3.0 and it works
> > great except for one problem. I configured Win4Lin
> > to access my Windows partition. When I try to access
> > the windows partition a handful of directories shows
> > up with the wrong files being displayed, missing files
> > or even files which have no names or junk characters
> > in them and with a size of zero bytes. This only
> > happens for specific files or directories. For instance
> > I am unable to access by Quicken data files from my
> > windows partition. But I am able to access all my
> > MS Word file properly. If I mount this filesystem under
> > linux everything shows up properly. Is it likely that
> > Win 98 under Win4Lin is not able to determine the
> > file type or names for certain types of files ...
> >
> > Any idea why this is happening ...
> >
Well these are potential workarounds -- but I would like to know
why this does not work in the first place. Isnt this something
that is supported under Win4Lin -- atleast the user's guide says so ..
I will really like to get this working as I have a lot of data
in the Windows partition ..
Netraverse guys ???
-Narayan
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