I have a Linux box running Red Hat 7.1 on my Windows network with Samba. Everything seems to run fine except for one thing. The Linux box is replacing a Windows 98 SE box that I used to store files on. Both systems have the same hard drive - a 30GB Western Digital. When I tried to transfer all the files from the Windows box to the Linux box, I ran out of disk space on the Linux box not even three quarters of the way through the transfer. The files on the windows box don't take up the whole drive. What Gives?

I'm certain that your linux box did do some parititioning to your harddrive on installation. It might just have happened that it created two rather large parititions so the one you try to put your win-files onto is not big enough...

df -h will give you some info on how your partitions are set and used up.

Can't give you any hint on resizing paritions with Linux though.

HTH Steave.

I'm certain that your linux box did do some parititioning to your harddrive on installation. It might just have happened that it created two rather large parititions so the one you try to put your win-files onto is not big enough...

The df -h told me that sometimes you need to look at what your doing when you install hard drives in two different systems at the same time.

It seems I put the 30GB hard drive in the wrong computer, and stuck a 13.6 GB hard drive in my Linux box.

Here's my new question. Since both of these systems are Linux boxes, what is the easiest way to transfer all my network and Samba info from one to the other?

I used groupadd, useradd, and chown to make the folder that was accessible from my PC's because the info I put into my smb.conf file didn't work.

To transfer files, NFS is the choice

add lines to your /etc/exports file that specify the directories you want to share (This will make them world wide visible) For more info see man exports.
Then restart/start your nfs-server. (Don't know how this is done on RH.

You will then be able to mount the directories with the command
#mount -t nfs server:share /mount/point
where share needs to be the fully qualified path on the host machine. That is if you shared /share/music
you will have to mount like this:
#mount -t nfs server:share/music /mount/point

You will probably have to create one identical user on both machines, so you won't get into file permission issues. For the time of transferring its probably a good idea to make the files world-readable.

Steave.