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Sharing a folder
- Thread starter webjunk
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You need to install Samba on your Linux box to set up shares that can be accessed via Windows.
ChrisP
ChrisP
webjunk,
As fluid said, Samba would be a good option. But to my knowledge, Samba only works on networks? Are you running a network? or are these two OS on the same box? If its on the same box, then you would need to read up on mounting.
dreamsync,
You would need to use the mount command to do this. Typing 'mount -h' would give you a list of possible options. To mount your windows partition onto Linux, you would first need to know which partition Windows is at. Once you know which partition MS Windows is on, then the easiest and most direct way of mounting would be as follows:
1. Create a dir in /mnt for your WIN98 folder.
- cd /mnt
- mkdir WIN98
2. Mount the WIN98 filesystem onto this folder.
- mount -t vfat /dev/hd** /mnt/WIN98
/dev/hd** being the partition where Windows is.
3. If you want the partition mounted everytime you boot the system, then you would need to edit your /etc/fstab. The syntax is not hard, basically just copy that same mount command and add a few other things.
As fluid said, Samba would be a good option. But to my knowledge, Samba only works on networks? Are you running a network? or are these two OS on the same box? If its on the same box, then you would need to read up on mounting.
dreamsync,
You would need to use the mount command to do this. Typing 'mount -h' would give you a list of possible options. To mount your windows partition onto Linux, you would first need to know which partition Windows is at. Once you know which partition MS Windows is on, then the easiest and most direct way of mounting would be as follows:
1. Create a dir in /mnt for your WIN98 folder.
- cd /mnt
- mkdir WIN98
2. Mount the WIN98 filesystem onto this folder.
- mount -t vfat /dev/hd** /mnt/WIN98
/dev/hd** being the partition where Windows is.
3. If you want the partition mounted everytime you boot the system, then you would need to edit your /etc/fstab. The syntax is not hard, basically just copy that same mount command and add a few other things.
To mount a Windows share on Linux across the network....
mount -t smbfs -o username=chris //winserver/share /mount_point
winserver is the NetBIOS name of the Windows box and then the share name you want to mount. The mount point is any folder in your filesystem. A common place to mount Samba shares in Linux is somewhere in /mnt. You can create a directory called /mnt/win, or whatever you want.
ChrisP
mount -t smbfs -o username=chris //winserver/share /mount_point
winserver is the NetBIOS name of the Windows box and then the share name you want to mount. The mount point is any folder in your filesystem. A common place to mount Samba shares in Linux is somewhere in /mnt. You can create a directory called /mnt/win, or whatever you want.
ChrisP
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