[lug] Where to get help on Fedora Core 4?

[Hugh Brown]

Siegfried,

Historically, ntfs write support has been iffy at best.  If you want to
share files back and forth on a dual boot machine, your life will be much
easier if you create a FAT32 partition and use that as a staging area for
passing files back and forth.

If you are only interested in reading files off the ntfs partition, then
you are probably aren't far away from getting the ntfs partition mounted.

The kernel-module-ntfs rpm has a pre-built ntfs kernel driver (i.e. no
need to go to /usr/src/linux; make menuconfig).

Since the above rpm is installed, you likely need to do:

modprobe ntfs

After you run the above, you should get output from the command

cat /proc/filesystems | grep ntfs

Then you should be able to mount your ntfs partition:

mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/winxp

assuming that the directory /mnt/winxp exists.

After looking at some of the posts on the fedora lists, I feel like I
should point out that you only need to run make menuconfig in
/usr/src/linux when you are rebuilding your kernel.  For the stuff that
you've asked about, you shouldn't need to rebuild your kernel.

As for your samba question, I'd recommend using smbclient to make sure
that you can connect appropriately.  Then once you can connect
appropriately, use mount -t smbfs

smbclient -U <username> //BRAUNER/C$

You might also try setting up a different share than the administrative
one.


Hugh