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