I thought they were workingon this @ http://www.samba-tng.org but I'm not 100% sure. -- Michael S. Dunsavage ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Torri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Leo Leavitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 4:22 AM Subject: Re: Windows Xp/ Linux
> On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 09:07, Leo Leavitt wrote: > > I have redhat 8.0 and windows Xp systems on a PC network at home. I > > would like to access my Windows PC from the Linux box and Vis Versa. I > > cannot seem to have either recognize the other. Is there any white paper > > out there that tells me how to make these two accessible to one another > > and be able to transfer files to and from. > > > > Thanks > > Leo > > XP uses NTFS which Linux can read fine but write capabilities are still > experimental. So you should be able to read data from your XP > partitions. XP does not recognize anything that did not come from > Microsoft. So sorry XP will not write to let alone read from your Linux > partitions. > > So at this time there is no easy way to my knowledge of how to have the > computer do what you want. An alternative solution is to have your > common data stored on a Samba server. This acts like a Windows > Fileserver so that from XP you can read/write to your Linux server. > While in Linux you can use samba or NFS to share the files to your linux > clients. > > Stephen > -- > Stephen Torri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
