Accessing a Windows XP Pro Share in Fedora 2

[unixjim]

Hey Guys,

I've been trying to solve this one for a while.

I have installed Fedora Core 2 on the same HDD as WinXP Pro (dual boot).

I am wanting to access a drive on the XP (ntfs) partition in Fedora. I have Samba installed and working (can access LAN shares on a network), however i am having troubles with accessing shares on a dual boot. I have 4 partitions in windows, and have shared 'f drive'.

I have tried a couple of command which tell me samba can not connect. These commands include:

smbmount //windows/share /linux/mount/point -o
username=windowsusername,password=windowspassword

and
mount -t smbfs //windows/share /linux/mount/point -o
username=windowsusername,password=windowspassword

This is quite annoying, as i was able to do it with my old Win98ME (fat32) and RedHat7.1.

Please help!

Thanks,

[rider_royal]

don't you just have to mount windows partition and access it like a folder rather than using samba to access windows on same hard disk.
samba is used when you wan to access windows on network (i.e.) other computer.

[unixjim]

ok, if thats the case, what is wrong with this:

mount -t ntfs /dev/hda4 /mnt/share

[muert0]

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...fc2.shtml#ntfs

13 June 2004

Either recompile your kernel for NTFS read support. (Hard)
Or obtain the matching the proper kernel module. Again make sure
you have the correct version (example similar to: 2.6.5-1.358).
Use the 'uname -a' command for more information.

Go to http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora2.html
for the module/rpm.
Go to http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/instructions.html

for the instructions.

[root@charon root]# uname -a
Linux charon 2.6.5-1.358 #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

I selected '2.6.5-1.358' 'i686' for my Athlon-XP computer.

[root@charon root]# rpm -ivh kernel-ntfs-2.6.5-1.358.i686.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:kernel-ntfs ########################################### [100%]
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The Linux NTFS RPM has been successfully installed.

Please read the NTFS FAQ if you want to know how to:

* Mount an NTFS partition
* Change the permissions/ownership of a mounted NTFS partition
* Automatically mount an NTFS partition

FAQ: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html
RPM: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/index.html
SRC: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/rpmsrc.html
_______________________________________________________________________________

Edit /etc/fstab for automatic mounting of NTFS partitions at boot:

/dev/hda6 /mnt/work ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hda7 /mnt/media ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hda8 /mnt/temp ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win2000 ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0

Run 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' to determine which partitions are NTFS.

Make sure all the mount points are created, then run 'mount -a' to
mount all partitions. (ex: 'mkdir /mnt/win2000')

If you can't understand that let me know and I'll guide you through it step by step if you have some kind of IM service. Preferably yahoo.

[rider_royal]

what muert0 told you that there is nothing with your command but first you to addsupport to you rkernel to read ntfs partition. and command explained above is just that.

[unixjim]

had to reinstall windows and linux today. now, instead of fedore core 2, im using Mandrake 10. How do you go about getting NTFS support?

[rider_royal]

I haven't used mandrake but found this in search , maybe this will help :

http://mandrakeusers.org/lofiversion...hp/t16134.html

as I can infer all latest version by reputed vendors have included support for NTFS. So you just have to look in /mnt/