Hello Folks!

I have a 5Gb Hard disk with the swap and boot space on it. The OS is Linux RedHat9. The box is connected on a home LAN and it has internet access.

Apart from this drive, I have a 120 Gb hard disk with all my multimedia files on it (nothing else (no OS's progs,...)) that I would like to share on our Microsoft network, and install it as a slave on this linux box.

However, the drive is NTFS formatted by a windows OS before, and RedHat is the only distribution that cant read files from such a filesystem. I have installed an RPM on my Linux box currently, and I can see the contents through my Linuxbox. This RPM enables read only, and writing is possible but strongly disrecommended, as the RPM is very writing unstable.

Is there another package or RPM or whatever that I could install so I can safely read AND write files on my NTFS hard drive?

A next question might be how I could share an entire disk on a Microsoft Network through samba, but thats a question for other threads.

Suggestions?

(Yes, I am a complete Newbie to Linux)

The linux ntfs driver is not ready... you can use other programs though:
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
I'm not sure if it works perfectly though.

Hmm, perhaps try some tools to convert your partition into FAT32? Perhaps Partition Magic 8 would be able to do it, but dont quote me on that...

Grab the newest kernel sources and build a new kernel with support for reading from NTFS drives. That's all I have to offer as far as advice goes unless you want me to write you a tutorial about how to compile a kernel.