[SLE] Need file share help!
I would like to use samba on my linux machine to share files to my window client. My goal is for my wireless XP laptop to see a network folder in which XP files can be backed up and also serve to transfer data between XP and linux. I currently have samba sharing my local printer with the laptop. My machine has three hard drives hda (windows NT), hdb (suse 10.1), hdd (new 120 GB drive). The new drive is 1 big ntfs partition. I would like to repartition to: hdd1 (partition to share, 20G) hdd2 (reiserfs for local linux backup, 40G) hdd3 (60G for testing additional linux distros) What format should I used for the shared partition. fdisk shows multible ids for ntfs, which one is correct? I'm guessing id = 7. I would also like to write to this partition. Can linux write ntfs yet? Any Samba hints would also be appreciated. Mike -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
Mike Adolf wrote:
I would like to use samba on my linux machine to share files to my window client. My goal is for my wireless XP laptop to see a network folder in which XP files can be backed up and also serve to transfer data between XP and linux. I currently have samba sharing my local printer with the laptop.
My machine has three hard drives hda (windows NT), hdb (suse 10.1), hdd (new 120 GB drive). The new drive is 1 big ntfs partition. I would like to repartition to: hdd1 (partition to share, 20G) hdd2 (reiserfs for local linux backup, 40G) hdd3 (60G for testing additional linux distros)
What format should I used for the shared partition. fdisk shows multible ids for ntfs, which one is correct? I'm guessing id = 7. I would also like to write to this partition. Can linux write ntfs yet?
Any Samba hints would also be appreciated.
Cannot help out with samba but re the formatting- to share either use Fat16 or, better, FAT32. Linux can read ntfs but cannot (yet) write to it. Cheers. -- "It is well known that among the blind, the one-eyed man is king". Desiderius Erasmus -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 03:38, Basil Chupin wrote:
Any Samba hints would also be appreciated.
Cannot help out with samba but re the formatting- to share either use Fat16 or, better, FAT32. Linux can read ntfs but cannot (yet) write to it.
Linux *can* write to ntfs (for many years it couldn't), but it's "generally not recommended". Some links: http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ http://bisqwit.iki.fi/story/howto/ntfs/ http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts
stephan beal a écrit :
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 03:38, Basil Chupin wrote:
Any Samba hints would also be appreciated.
Cannot help out with samba but re the formatting- to share either use Fat16 or, better, FAT32. Linux can read ntfs but cannot (yet) write to it.
Linux *can* write to ntfs (for many years it couldn't), but it's "generally not recommended".
Some links:
Hello, This first link gives you a very sure way to write to NTFS, it uses the windows driver ntfs.sys so it is very reliable. I use it in order to share files. You've also a commercial driver sold by Paragon software and called 'ntfs for linux' http://www.ntfs-linux.com/ I've tested it, it works well but I've better the ntfs.sys solution. Michel -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
stephan beal wrote:
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 03:38, Basil Chupin wrote:
Any Samba hints would also be appreciated. Cannot help out with samba but re the formatting- to share either use Fat16 or, better, FAT32. Linux can read ntfs but cannot (yet) write to it.
Linux *can* write to ntfs (for many years it couldn't), but it's "generally not recommended".
Some links:
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ http://bisqwit.iki.fi/story/howto/ntfs/ http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
If it is only in the experimental stage then it is not a useful thing to tell someone who is probably a 'newbie' to format a partition in NTFS to be used in Linux. When you install SuSE it creates any NTFS partitions in fstab as "read only"; if linux could write to NTFS then there would not be this limitation. Cheers. -- "It is well known that among the blind, the one-eyed man is king". Desiderius Erasmus -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 23:48, Basil Chupin wrote:
stephan beal wrote:
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 03:38, Basil Chupin wrote:
Any Samba hints would also be appreciated.
Cannot help out with samba but re the formatting- to share either use Fat16 or, better, FAT32. Linux can read ntfs but cannot (yet) write to it.
Linux *can* write to ntfs (for many years it couldn't), but it's "generally not recommended".
Some links:
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ http://bisqwit.iki.fi/story/howto/ntfs/ http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
If it is only in the experimental stage then it is not a useful thing to tell someone who is probably a 'newbie' to format a partition in NTFS to be used in Linux. When you install SuSE it creates any NTFS partitions in fstab as "read only"; if linux could write to NTFS then there would not be this limitation.
Cheers. Desiderius Erasmus
Greetings, I would like to thank everyone for replying. Here is the final outcome. I created a FAT32 partition for sharing with Windows. I mount the partition with the following fstab options. auto,exec,uid=1001,gid=100,umask=0000 1 2 This allows my XP user to write to it, even though a root process mounted it. As for configuring SAMBA, I found a good writeup on setting up a local area net containing Window and Linux machines, specifically suse 10.1. Here is the url, should anyone else need assistance. http://www.tweakhound.com/linux/samba/page_1.htm The title is: How To Samba With Suse 10.1 And Windows XP by Eric Vaughan. Mike -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
Mike Adolf wrote:
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 23:48, Basil Chupin wrote:
stephan beal wrote:
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 03:38, Basil Chupin wrote:
Any Samba hints would also be appreciated. Cannot help out with samba but re the formatting- to share either use Fat16 or, better, FAT32. Linux can read ntfs but cannot (yet) write to it. Linux *can* write to ntfs (for many years it couldn't), but it's "generally not recommended".
Some links:
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ http://bisqwit.iki.fi/story/howto/ntfs/ http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ If it is only in the experimental stage then it is not a useful thing to tell someone who is probably a 'newbie' to format a partition in NTFS to be used in Linux. When you install SuSE it creates any NTFS partitions in fstab as "read only"; if linux could write to NTFS then there would not be this limitation.
Cheers. Desiderius Erasmus
Greetings,
I would like to thank everyone for replying. Here is the final outcome. I created a FAT32 partition for sharing with Windows. I mount the partition with the following fstab options.
auto,exec,uid=1001,gid=100,umask=0000 1 2
This allows my XP user to write to it, even though a root process mounted it.
As for configuring SAMBA, I found a good writeup on setting up a local area net containing Window and Linux machines, specifically suse 10.1. Here is the url, should anyone else need assistance.
http://www.tweakhound.com/linux/samba/page_1.htm
The title is: How To Samba With Suse 10.1 And Windows XP by Eric Vaughan.
Now *this* is a most useful article! I just read the first para. and I think it may just help me with my problem with getting a printer on its own (Win XP) mini-server (Netgear) on the LAN working with SuSE. (I hope!) Re the entry in fstabm, here is the entry in my fstab for SuSE 10.1 for a partition formatted in FAT32 I use as the go-between for XP and SuSE and created by SuSE during installation: /dev/hdc10 /windows/N vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002, nls=utf8 0 0 Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
I would like to use samba on my linux machine to share files to my window client. My goal is for my wireless XP laptop to see a network folder in which XP files can be backed up and also serve to transfer data between XP and linux. I currently have samba sharing my local printer with the laptop.
My machine has three hard drives hda (windows NT), hdb (suse 10.1), hdd (new 120 GB drive). The new drive is 1 big ntfs partition. I would like to repartition to: hdd1 (partition to share, 20G) hdd2 (reiserfs for local linux backup, 40G) hdd3 (60G for testing additional linux distros)
What format should I used for the shared partition. fdisk shows multible ids for ntfs, which one is correct? I'm guessing id = 7. I would also like to write to this partition. Can linux write ntfs yet?
Any Samba hints would also be appreciated. I think everyone missed the point so far. Since this will be shared over the network, it can be a native Linux file system, and I would recommend either ReiserFS or EXT3 for hdd1. Samba will export it over the network, and Windows will see it as a share. Samba (like Windows and NFS) can export at
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 6:12 pm, Mike Adolf wrote:
the directory level. There is a feature in Samba to export Linux users home
directories.
Samba is relatively simple to set up in the generic. I currently use it at
home to share a printer with my wife. The printer is attached to her
Windows system. The only change I made to /etc/samba/smb.conf is the
workgroup name.
WRT: Windows file systems on your Linux system. As correctly mentioned SuSE
10.x can read and write to NTFS partitions, but if you are going to share
files between your native Windows NT and Linux (I am assuming dual boot),
then you may want to consider a small FAT32 partition for that purpose, but
if you don't expect Linux to write into that file system very often, then
NTFS should be fine. Again, this is for sharing files on a dual boot
system.
I would suggest that you take a look
at /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/examples/smb.conf.SUSE if the Samba Doc
package is installed. There are a number of good books on Samba. A number
of years ago, I had all sorts of problems exporting a printer via Samba. I
had even asked two other engineers who were more knowledgable that I on
Samba, and neither of them gave me a working answer. I bought a book on
Samba, read the relevant section while my wife was shopping, and solved the
problem. But, today, Samba tends to work nicely out of the box.
--
Jerry Feldman
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