[ale] accessing Linux drives under Windows! acK!

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I just did this with Redhat 6.2.  The key word here is 'Samba', a piece of
software that lets a UNIX system share a drive or directory such that it
shows up in the Windows 'Network neighborhood'.  After this, file transfer
is a matter of drag and drop.  Very cool.

Of course, my scenario is accessing across a network, and you said you want
to access a local drive on the same host.  Not sure if Samba helps in that
scenario but it may be worth a look.

see http://www.samba.org

It took me about three hours to study it, download it, install it, and get
it running.  I have to admit that, for some reason, I haven't been able to
get it to start automatically from inetd.conf.  Instead, I have to run a
separate script to start it.  If you figure out how to add it to the list
of auto started services maybe you could let me know.

HTH.


At 01:07 PM 1/29/2001 -0500, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
>Okay, I use linux primarily, _but_ I have no choice but to use Win2k for the
>IE browser...  Having cleared that up, is there a way that I can access my
>local ext2 filesystems from Win2k?  I know it's cakewalk from Linux to
>access vfat; but I can think of times I'd like to be able to access ext2
>filesystems (on the same HD; not from network) from Win.  Any suggestions?
>or is it not possible?!!?
>
>cb
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