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Ok, i'm a pretty big newbie, so you'll have to bear with me here:
I got a new box up and running, partitioned the hd, put XP on one part, left a sizable chunk for a shared partition, then installed Mandrake 9.2 on the rest.
I can see the /mnt/win_d dir (that's the partition I intend to use between the OSes), and I can get to it when i'm logged in as root. But how do I make this available to other users? I can't seem to chmod it.
First question, it's not an NTFS partition is it? If it is, then convert it to FAT32 (and reformat if necessary). Captive just ain't there yet for writing to a NTFS partition.
Second, how about helping a brudda out and posting your /etc/fstab? (could it be the "ro" in the fstab file? )
Chances are that it's a NTFS partition and write access isn't quite ready for linux (without having to pay for it).
So what's a good way to share this folder over the network?
According to file properties, I can only share files under the home directory - so I created a link under my home directory to a dir on the windows drive. Is this the proper way to share a full access folder?
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