How Do I Read My Windows Drive From Linux (F A Q)

[justdanuk]

Hi All

can anyone tell me how to do this if the drive is on a speperate machine on the same network?

 

[SESaskDFC]

Howdy:

First of all, is the drive shared?? It has to be..

Second, is the drive formatted FAT as Linux can't/won't read an NTFS formatted drive..

Murray

 

[smah]

The formatting doesn't matter if it's in a seperate machine on the network. First, on the windows machine, you need to share the drive (see the correct windows operating system forum if you need help with this). Then on the linux machine, you use smbclient or the appropriate graphical front-end to access the share throught the network (see forum619 for more help with this).

 

[sh00der]

Although it's irrelevent in this case, Linux CAN read an NTFS drive but write access is not advised.