I just installed linux on my system as a dual boot with XP, but i am a huge noob to linux, as in i just finished installing like 5 hours ago. is there a way to network between a windows xp machine and a linux 9 machine? so i can grab some files off the others harddrive, etc..

Wait, you have a dual boot system or 2 machines?

If you have a dual boot system, you should be able to READ the NTFS volume but not write to it. My suggestion for this is to take some space and make a FAT32 partition, both OS's can read and write to a FAT32 partition.

If you mean you have two machines, you need to set up file sharing on the XP box.

i have two machines, one with just windows XP on it, the other with both linux and windows, it is a dual boot. i want to network the dual boot machine with the windows xp machine is this possible?

Possible indeed!

Do some searching on Samba and you should find a few "how to's" on windows <-> linux networking.

aight im searching for that... anyother tips?

hmm i cant get to the Samba website: www.Samba.org, mozilla just sits there forever,

linkage:

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/tu...mba/index.html

http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Networks/Samba.html

I can't get to Samba.org either. Not even from Win98. Must be off line.

You should install samba (rpm or whatever packaging system your distro uses) on your linux box and after that you can do a search in your /usr dir for samba doc files.

Probably in /usr/share/doc or something simillar.

Samba is the way to do it.

Or you could take the harddrive from XP-pure machine and put it on the linux machine, mount it (what's that - mount -t ntfs /dev/hdd /mnt/somewhere - do a man mount ) and do the copying if you only need just once to copy. If you need networking samba is the answer, as windows doen't know anything else

ok lol just as soon as i finish these 56 updates... ill figure out how samba works lol. now that i just figured out how to install the up2date rpms for red hat.