Networked hard drive

[Patrick Doyle]

On 3/15/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 15 March 2007, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> > On 3/15/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I'm certain you'll get answers from folks with more direct experience
> > in this sort of thing than I, but I'll toss my $.02 just so you can
> > start looking around in the mean time.
> >
> > Given the market share of Windows PC's, your hard drive is probably
> > advertising itself as a Windows share of some sort.  There are
> > probably LInux based tools to "browse" the windows network and to
> > attach to your hard drive -- they may even be integrated into
> > Gnome/KDE at this point.
> >
> I should have said that I have formatted the larger part of the drive as ext3
> and a small part as vfat.  Maybe I have to go back to usb connection and set
> the partitions as shareable, so that samba can read them.
>
I would expect that whatever firmware is in your drive would know
about vfat (and possibly NTFS), but would not know about ext3.  Of
course, I could be very pleasantly surprised about that.

--wpd