i have a windows 2000 laptop that i am running knoppix, i have samba running on it so i can access the hard drive from another windows machine, im trying to copy files to the hard drive and it just wont do it , is there any way to do that?

i have changed the permissions using knoppix for any one to write to it, that doesnt work, i have tried right clicking on the drive and going to Actions>Change read/write mode but i get a error:" the remount command failed. maybe there is another process accessing the filesystem currnetly." im not sure what could be using it i stoped samba and i still get that error. ??

basicly im trying to fix a win 2000 install that went bad (what else is new) and i need to copy files to the hard drive from the network to the hard drive, and cant figure out how to get write access through knoppix

any help would be greatly appreciated!!

thanks in advance

If the drive is NTFS, then you'll have serious problems trying to write to it. What filesystem is the drive using?

the drive is ntfs, i thought that might be a problem, so there no way around that?

thanks for your help!

There's a driver called (I believe) captiveNTFS. It actually uses the real NTFS drivers to access it. The legality of this varies from region to region, so do check to make sure it does not violate your windows software license.

i have been trying that and i keep getting errors, when trying to load the drivers.

let me ask you this if the drive was fat32 would i be able to write to it with no problem?

thanks again for your help

Yep, fat32 (aka vfat) works excellently with Linux.

yep that worked fine. thanks again for all the help!