Access redhat9 files from windows xp

[Rick Stevens]

Jim Smith wrote:
> Rick;
> 
> It has been a while since I messed with this, but don't you have to
> recompile you kernel to get NTFS support in Red Hat?  When you do, as I
> remember, you have the option to have NTFS - Read Only as well as Read/Write
> and that is flagged as experimental, you are crazy if you use this option,
> etc. .  .   .

That is correct.  Red Hat does not ship NTFS modules in its kernel RPMs.
You must build them, which means rebuilding the kernel from source and
enabling either NTFS read-only or NTFS read-write.  This doesn't mean
you need to _install_ the new kernel.  You must build it, then build the
modules, then you can copy the NTFS modules to the appropriate run-time
directory (/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/fs/ntfs/ntfs.o).

> SuSE comes out of the box with Read only capabilities for NTFS volumes.
> Works fine.

Yes, it does.  Red Hat kernels don't, Fedora kernels don't, Slackware
kernels don't, and I don't think Mandrake kernels have it either.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 1:04 PM
> To: hmann at itgroundwork.com; Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: Access redhat9 files from windows xp
> 
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> 
>>Harper Mann wrote:
>>
>>>What about Samba?  It will set up shares on RH 9 that XP can see.
>>
>>Yes, but these are on the same machine.  When XP is running, RH9 isn't,
>>thus Samba won't be running.  He needs _native_ ext2/ext3 support under
>>XP, which he won't find.
>>
>>Alternately, he can run RH9 on FAT partitions, but it's horribly
>>inefficient.  Or he can mount a FAT partition under RH9 and write to
>>that.  XP will be able to see that.  If he wants to mount and use NTFS,
>>he'll need the NTFS filesystem modules that Red Hat doesn't supply.  I
>>have some on the RHIL website, but I've been very, very lax about
>>keeping it updated.  I suppose I will have to get on it again.
>>
>>[snip]
>>
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