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