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Windows is set up to be obstinately uncooperative with Linux , Linux is free Windows is not.
For Linux to connect to and read or write to Windows it must be done using Server Message Blocks which can only be done by a Linux program called Samba as far as I am aware . You must install and configure Samba and it takes a while to get it going I can tell you.
So if its not critical write your files to CD's and forget Samba. Alternatively I use a Flash card and reader on usb. Get it set up on the windows side or use it in a camera once and then Linux will happily write to it in fat16 format
Last edited by bobbelfield; 04-14-2006 at 07:22 PM.
The most common means of doing what you want, is to have a FAT32 partition on your Windows disk. That partition is readable and writeable by both OS's. It's not complicated, and I'd say 90% of Linux users do it like that.
That's what I do, I have 2 large fat32 partitions that I can access from mandy.
If something gets broken, I'm always breaking things, I can download docs and packages while using windows and then reboot into linux and use the material I've acquired.
Like the last time, in January when I tried to install KDE3.5
It's not the most efficient filing system around, but it can be useful.
Cheers
p.s. Some of the new kernels have the fuctionallity, and it works in most cases, but it's not bulletproof yet. (2.6.14 I'm using)
Last edited by GlennsPref; 04-16-2006 at 01:09 AM.
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