Viewing Windows Files from Linux

nobyone · 03-26-2004, 09:32 AM

Hi,

I am a linux newbie and i still need windows sometimes and i would like to access my windows files from linux.

How can I do that as user (i can access them as root but would prefer not to use root)?

Thanks a lot

skel · 03-26-2004, 09:42 AM

mount it with the uid=xxx option, where xxx is the uid for your user.

check out this thread

thehundredthone · 03-26-2004, 10:45 AM

simple

mkdir /mnt/windows
mount -t vfat /mnt/windows /dev/hda1-o umask 0 <thanx aaa!>
or -t ntfs if it is an ntfs drive

here, hda will mean primary master, and hdb primary slave. if you have only one then it is hda. 1 2 3 4 etc are the partition numbers. check with fdisk to see what partition is fat/ntfs

to mount every startup, add this to your /etc/fstab

/dev/hda1 <tab> /mnt/windows <tab> vfat <tab> user,rw,umask=000 0 0

be sure you know the number of the drive and it's filesystem

aaa · 03-26-2004, 10:49 AM

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -o umask=0
This will let regular users use the drive. Add a line to fstab for permanence.

nobyone · 03-26-2004, 11:03 AM

thanks everyone, gives me ideas and seems to work
i actually unmounted and then remounted with the syntax you provided, seems to work fine

have a great weekend.