How do i access Fat32 NTFS Shared Driver from Redhat 8

michaelh · 10-24-2002, 08:56 AM

To All,
I have recently installed Redhat V8 and connected that to my Windows Internet Gateway PC and that works fine. Now i am trying to access My Windows Fat32/NTFS Shared Drives/Files on the tcp/ip network and i cannot figure out how to connect to them. I know i am connected to My Windows network as i can access the net though it, but cannot see how to access the files. I see there is a program, called Lisa Included with Redhat, and i configured that, and it wrote some sort of config. It then said to run the Lisa exe and when i ran that it said tcp/ip binding error etc.? Not sure if Lisa is the program to use. Some people say you have to setup Samba.? My Windows network is ranged from 192.168.0.1-10 and subnet 255.255.255.0 and gateway 192.168.0.1 running Winxp/Win2k.

Can Redhat access Windows fat32/ntfs shared files, or does that require thirdparty apps etc. If it can, is there a step by step walkthough for connecting to Windows Shared PC's.

Thanks Michael

trickykid · 10-24-2002, 09:27 AM

www.samba.org is your answer.

Thymox · 10-24-2002, 09:28 AM

Welcome to LQ, Michael.

What you want is something called SAMBA. It comes as a default part of most distros, and I would have thought that RH8 is the same. If you want a nice GUI to use, then I would suggest something like GNOMBA. It allows you to mount (read: load) up the shares and access the files in them.

cottonmouth · 10-24-2002, 11:25 AM

As they said you will need samba to connect to the shares across your network. If you want to mount a local partition that is formatted in NTFS you will probably need to add NTFS support to your kernel.

Fat32 should be supported by RH8 but not NTFS for local file systems.

Thymox · 10-24-2002, 11:39 AM

Nope... Windows shares are universally 'translated' into the SMB protocol, so it won't matter whether the host machine is running on a FAT or a NTFS filesystem, all other machines on the network will see only the shares as an SMB filesystem... that's where the name Samba comes from.

cottonmouth · 10-24-2002, 02:44 PM

Dude,
Samba=network access for Windows

If he wants to mount LOCAL partitions that are formatted in NTFS Samba won't do that.

Thymox · 10-24-2002, 03:02 PM

In which case, you ought to read his post a little more thoroughly!

Quote:

Now i am trying to access My Windows Fat32/NTFS Shared Drives/Files on the tcp/ip network

You see? He's not trying to mount them locally, at all!

Scruff · 10-24-2002, 04:00 PM

Besides, Red Hat 8.0 is supposed to natively support reading of local NTFS file systems. I know Mandrake 9 does, and I read that the new Red Hat does also.

michaelk · 10-24-2002, 06:56 PM

RH 8.0 default install kernel does not include NTFS support.

michaelh · 10-24-2002, 07:36 PM

Thanks to everyone that replied here. I will check out Samba and Gnomba.

Michael :-)

Thymox · 10-24-2002, 07:42 PM

Just so that you know, you'll almost certainly already have them either on your system or on the installation CDs. Samba comes as standard in almost every distro under the sun, and Gnomba comes as part of the Gnome suite. Before you go searching the internet, check your CDs.

Good luck.

cottonmouth · 10-25-2002, 03:10 PM

I know he is asking about network files. Since he was wondering about NTFS I decided to ADD the fact that if he wanted to mount LOCAL partitians formatted in NTFS he would need to recompile the kernel to support that, it was an FYI.

Thymox · 10-27-2002, 05:16 PM

Yeah, I understand that, but it can possibly confuse the issue. Since he was asking about accessing the files over a network, the answer should be about accessing the files over a network. If he then decides that he wants to access some files locally on an ntfs partition, it wouldn't really fall under the scope of this thread. I don't mean to sound rude, but when you're starting out with something, it can be confusing and ultimately not helpful if people chip in with information that doesn't really affect them... yet. I appreciate that you were giving sound advice, but perhaps it was in the wrong place.

Oh, and I just re-read my post, and I appologize if I sounded a little terse and rude.

cottonmouth · 10-28-2002, 09:30 AM

No problemo my friend, we are all just trying to help.

whiprush · 10-28-2002, 02:59 PM

Michael,

Open up Nautilus, ie "Michael's Home" or whatever it's called.
Type "smb://" in the location bar and hit enter.

You should see something that looks very similar to Network Neighborhood.

I use this all the time on my laptop on different networks - and it works like a charm, out of the box, no fuss, no muss.

I *think* "smb://" will work from konqueror too, not sure about that.