hi all,

as u probably guessed iam new to linux bla bla.

anyway i got 2 hdd's 1 with redhat 9 2nd hdd is with windows xp,

and i wanted to know if its possible to share data (mp3's,txt) between them i readed litle about samba in linux but iam not sure if its what i need.

plz help me , thx in advance.

e.g:sorry for bad english

Welcome to LQ

If these HD's are on the same box, you don't need Samba. You can mount up windoze partitions in linux you just have to figure out what they are known as since linux and windoze don't use the same drive naming scheme (C: is windoze linux is /dev/hda1).

So post up what you get when you open up a console and type (as root):
/sbin/fdisk -l

And is your XP drive formatted with NTFS or Fat32?

Cool

damn that was quick ,win hdd is ntfs and linux is ext3 and yea they are on the same box :]


*edit*

ok here is what i got :

Disk /dev/hda: 61.4 GB, 61492838400 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7476 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1020 8193118+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 1021 7475 51849787+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1021 7475 51849756 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdb: 30.7 GB, 30750031872 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 59582 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 203 102280+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 204 58542 29402856 83 Linux
/dev/hdb3 58543 59582 524160 82 Linux swap

ok now what do i do and in simple english plz

ok, it seems that you have partitioned your windows hda drive into 2 partitions (the LBA is the extended container partition)

first, i'm going to have to know what distro u are using (if it is redhat, you're going to have to go to sourceforge.net and look up ntfs for linux and download an rpm for your kernel *u can find your kernel with the command uname -r; u may also consider recompiling your kernel)

for most other systems, just go into the directory /mnt and see if you have extra folder for your windoze partitions, if not make them with the commands (as root, with the "su -" command) mkdir /mnt/hda1 and then mkdir /mnt/hda5

then, u can simply do mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 and then mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 (u really don't need to worry about the other extra commands others may use, readonly is already implied)

qoute: "anyway i got 2 hdd's 1 with redhat 9 2nd hdd is with windows xp,"

like i said redhat 9 with kde ,btw i also updated all the patches

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html#down

go there and download an rpm (if u don't want to recompile your kernel) for your kernel version, then cd into the directory where u put it and do rpm -ivh blanameoffilebla####.rpm

you should see two 100%'s and a bunch of ##### symbols, then u have ntfs support and do the commands in my other reply

awesome it worked! u ppl are faster then my isp support thx allot :]