share data between linux and winxp

hammam12 · 06-04-2006, 04:31 PM

Hi all,
how to share data between open suse linux 10.1 and winxp (fat32) ?
... thanx
Mohammed Hammam

gilead · 06-04-2006, 04:49 PM

Are both operating systems on the one PC and you want to copy data between the partitions? If so, both Linux and Winxp support fat32 so you can mount a fat32 partition under Linux and read/write directly to it.

Are the operating systems on different PCs? If so, have you had a look at Samba?

hammam12 · 06-05-2006, 04:41 AM

Hi gilead,
The operating systems on different pc's, I looked at samba, but i could not let it work in my environment, could you help ?
... thanx
Mohammed Hammam

prozac · 06-05-2006, 04:49 AM

yes we can help. what did you try so far?

hammam12 · 06-05-2006, 06:44 AM

HI prozac,
let's start from the begining. I want to share data between two machine the first one has opensuse linux 10.1 and the other machine has winXP, what I have to do ?
... thanx
Mohammed Hammam

gilead · 06-05-2006, 02:39 PM

Samba can do a lot of things - if I guess at what you want it to do, the chances are high it wouldn't be right. Also, rather than typing out the info from the Samba howto, I'd suggest having a read through the info at http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/...TO-Collection/, trying it out and then posting any problems you have to get it running.

prozac · 06-05-2006, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by prozac

yes we can help. what did you try so far?

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Originally Posted by hammam12

HI prozac,
let's start from the begining. I want to share data between two machine the first one has opensuse linux 10.1 and the other machine has winXP, what I have to do ?
... thanx
Mohammed Hammam

you can read http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/...TO-Collection/ and install and configure samba. If you have iptables configured, you may want to look at your rules and allow port 137:139. I have seen many people getting in trouble because of their iptables rules. The samba configuration to share any directory is pretty simple so take it simple and then if you still have problems getting it work you can tell us what you tried and didn't work. we would be glad to help you out.

hammam12 · 06-07-2006, 06:46 AM

Hi gilead,
Hi prozac,
I have went through the manual you have provided. My problem is
I have two machine the first one has linux opensuse 10.1 and the other has winxp connected both by lan. I mounted the shared files from the first machine by using samba
my computer in desktop then network folder then SMB shares then workgroup, I found my share file in read only mode, when I tried to write in it says
'access denied to smb://pc01/shared file
Could someone tells how to write on these shared files ?
... thanx
Mohammed Hammam

prozac · 06-07-2006, 06:53 AM

so you installed and configured samba.
try this and tell me if it worked or not okie!
in your run command <ALT+F2> on KDE type

Code:

smb://your-winxp-machine-ip

hammam12 · 06-07-2006, 10:02 AM

Hi prozac,
1st thank you. 2nd the command is working goes to my other machine (winxp) workgroup, but it is still I can not write on it.
... thanx
Mohammed Hammam

hammam12 · 06-19-2006, 01:50 PM

the issue has been resolved
... thanx
Mohammed Hammam