Access redhat9 files from windows xp

Chris Hewitt rhil at manordata.uklinux.net
Wed Oct 27 19:03:55 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 19:09, Harper Mann wrote:
> What about Samba?  It will set up shares on RH 9 that XP can see.
> 
> Check out http://us1.samba.org/samba/
> 
> RH 9 has samba packages, try "up2date --showall" or an earlier version that
> still works is on the installation ISOs.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Harper
> 
> Harper Mann
> Groundwork Open Source Solutions
> 510-599-2075 (cell)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Bob McClure Jr
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 9:06 AM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: Access redhat9 files from windows xp
> 
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:36:58AM +0000, Nofriyadi Nurdam wrote:
> > Hi all, I have Windows XP and Redhat9 on my computer.
> > I want to access redhat9 files from windows xp.
> > Do you know how to access redhat9 files from XP?
> > Thanks in advance
> > Nofriyadi
> 
> You can't get there from here, not out of the box, anyway.  Microsoft
> refuses to admit that Linux exists, so it has no way to read ext2 or
> ext3 filesystems.  You can, however, within linux, write to a FAT32
> filesystem (but not an NTFS filesystem), and Windoze can read and
> write to that.
> 
> That said, have a look at
> 
> http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2.html
> 
> specifically
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd
> 
> but bear in mind it is alpha software.
> 
> Cheers,

The OP is implying it is a dual boot computer, so I don't think Samba is
the answer.

HTH
Chris




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