Hello MDK users,

We have a 80 GB hard drive desktop with 4 partitions as follows:

C - Windows

D - NTFS

E - FAT32

F - MDK10.1

This is system is on the network. I'm trying to make the drive D or E as a shared drive so that all the other users in our lab ( who are all connected through network ) can use this shared drive as a backup drive.

My question is, can any linux user on the network access this shared drive with read/write permissions? If yes, what does MDK provides for these purposes?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Raghu Sankarayogi

if your sharing these from a windows box, share them just like you would with another windows pc.

on the linux side you need to use samba to connect to windows shares.
LinNeighbourhood gives you a windows like browser for mounting and unmounting shares

mount -t smbfs
use double //'s to specify netbios computer name and enter a local admin password when prompted.

just to let you know if you don't already. Linux (as long as I'm up to date) cannot write to NTFS harddrives. you have read privelidges, but linux writing to a NTFS drive is a bad idea.

There is a utility out there called ntfs-captive, it uses Microsoft's own ntfs drivers to access the filesystem. it is supposed to be just as safe to write to ntfs with that as with windows...

Thanks for the valuable suggestion guys.

i found it excrusiatingly slow
and when i booted windows xp it found a handful of errors (no corruption though)

I though F$#k it and deleted all NTFS and made them all RieserFS
hell lot faster :P