Hi, I have problems sharing my secondary drive with my win 98. It works in mandrake linux 9.2, but I can't reach it in windows 98. It says there that the drive is locked by another file system.

Try unmounting the shared partition before closing down Mandrake: umount /mnt/windows or whatever the partition is called. Then see what happens when you try to access through Windows.

I've done that, and i doesnt work, and when I return to Linux the drive is mounted again. It seems to mount itself when I log out.

Could you post your /etc/fstab file?

/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/datadisk vfat user,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,kudzu 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0

Try replacing /dev/hdb1 /mnt/datadisk vfat user,umask=0 0 0 with
/dev/hda2 /mnt/win vfat users,umask=000,defaults 0 0

I picked these up off another thread. I'm not entirely positive that this make a difference, but.......