[NEWBIE]{AGAIN}Mandrake & file sharing

Sniipe

2 questions in 1 I guess.

As I'm on a network with all windows machines, can I view there shared files? Thats for ppl using redhat and mandrake

Also on a diff topic how do u mount an NTFS partition (on the same Hard drive) using redhat. Mandrake already did this for me which was class.

My friend installed redhat, I installed mandrake, so far mandrake seems to be better.

leeroybrown

To share files with Windows machines 'samba' will be what you want. I havn't messed extensively with samba nor do I use RedHat or Mandrake but I'm sure they'll hav a reasonably painless setup for it. Combine that with a bit of advice here and it'll be up and running in no time.

As for mounting the NTFS partition

mount -t ntfs /dev/hd?? /mount_point

Replace the ?? with the drive letter and partition number (eg /dev/hda1) and replace mount_point withe name of the dir you want to use (eg. /mnt/win).

You can edit your fstab (/etc/fstab) to add it to you list of paritions so that it can be easily mounted by typing
mount /mount_point

Remember too that NTFS support under linux is still in the development stages and you will only have Read-Only support for your NTFS partitions from within linux.

Sniipe

thx for the "mount -t ntfs /dev/hd?? /mount_point" command I'll deffo use it.

Samba on the other hand I'm guessing I'll have difficulty with, I'll have a look at it tomorrow and try setting it up!

Thanks again tho!

leeroybrown

Quick modification:

mount -t ntfs /dev/hd?? /mount_point -o ro

THis will ensure it is mounted Read-Only. Right now it will be mounted ro anyway.

For the fstab line:

/dev/hd?? /mount_point ntfs defaults,ro,user 0 0

should do it. (You'll see the standard format in /etc/fstab anyway)

Sniipe

thanks Leeroybrown

Sniipe

typed in the following in redhat 8

mount -t ntfs /dec/hda1 /mnt/nt -o ro

and the error it spits out is

mount: mount point /mnt/nt does does not exist




I had a look at the /etc/fstab file

the format comes up as

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
~~~~~~ETC~~~~~~
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
~~~~~~ETC~~~~~~

So I guess this is a sort of autoexec.bat for mounting.

What will I type in to mount the ntfs drive??

Gerry

you are trying to mount it do a directory which does not exist. ( /mnt/nt )

try this first: mkdir -p /mnt/nt

Use the line supplied by leeroybrown in the fstab.
you are gonna need to mess around with the letters and numbers you put after /dev/hd, it depends on how many drives you have, where you put linux, and how many linux partitions you have. If it is on the same drive, and thats the only drive in the machine ( this would be hda ), do a df -k and see what partitions are mounted already. Obviously the windows partition will not be on that list, so try the next number after the highest linux partition.

sisob

For samba the latest Mandrake is the best
bet ATM. The new redhat out in a week will
also have a nice tool. That is if you want
to share files

Sniipe

ok I tried the mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/nt -o ro

the error that comes up this time (after I created that folder) is:

mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernal

maybe I left out a package or something? And is samba a package on the cd's or where do I find it?

So sorry for all the silly questions, but this is all new to me!

Ronan|Raven

http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/

Stick that in your Kernel and smoke it! Just dl it and run it and it will add NTFS support to your Kernel. I dld it a while back and it did the trick.

leeroybrown

Theres direct NTFS "read support" in the kernel anyway ... all you hae to do is compile it in.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html

"NTFS file system support (read only)" is an option in the file systems section of the config.

Kali

For browsing/mounting Windows shares in X try LinNeighborhood.. its not too bad, if a bit buggy on certain network settings.

To manually mount windows shares on your machine use smbmount (after installing samba)...

smbmount //machinename/sharename /mnt/mountdir -o username=username,password=password

or to get a list of available shares:
smbclient -L windows_server -U Username

where windows_server is the domain master browser for the network.