dual boot xp/linux new user :) 2

[Jamfool]

I installed XP, then i installed redhat 9 and I have now got a dual boot machine

My question is how do i access my fat32 drives from linux? do I have to mount them some how?

2.
Also when I go to network servers it always asks me for username/password which is unset so i dont need the prompt...can i turn it off or fill in the details somewhere?
so i can just access the other computers on my network.

how do i set up sharing like in xp?

 

[amitatharkar]

1)
create one directory under /mnt Like winc
and
list the partions with fdisk -l
notedown the windows partition and use following command

mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/winc
[Considering /dev/hda2 is your windows partion]
2)
Have you confogured Samba server.? SAMBA server can do this for u.

 

[AP81]

You can have your windows partition mounted automatically at boot up.

First, make a directory for the Windows to mount to, e.g.

mkdir /mnt/win

Next, mount the partition windows resides on, e.g.

mount -t vfat /dev/hda /mnt/win

Once you have it mounted correctly, you can add the following line to to /etc/fstab file:

/dev/hdaX /mnt/win vfat auto,user,umask=000 0 0

(where X is your Windows partition)

If you don't want it mounted automatically, put noauto instead of auto. If you don't want full read/write access, then use this instead:

/dev/hdaX /mnt/win vfat default,auto,user 0 0

 

[AP81]

Read/write is 100% stable with FAT32. Samba isn't needed for something this simple.