HI there,

I just installed Mandrake 9.1 for the first time in my life, First linux installation that is, and I am very impressed with it.
I ditched windows but got one problem :

I got 2 hard disks in my PC, I would like to share my entire 2nd hard disk (is mounted hda2).
When I try to right click on one of the folders on my 2nd hard disk, it says that I can only share my HOME folder!
How is this going to work, this means that I can only share folders on the harddisk where I have got Linux installed (hda1)?
I have Samba installed, and that is workign fine, i can see the other pc's on the network.

So to wrap it all up : How can I share folders that are on another Harddisk?

Thank you very much, and HAIL to linux.

so nobody knows an answer to this one?

In order to access files and folders on a Windows partition from Linux, the Windows partition would have to be FAT. If your partition(s) are FAT-type, cd to /, mkdir osshare(1,2,3,etc for each partition), then open your /etc/fstab in a text editor and add a line that looks like this for each partition:

/dev/hda2 /osshare vfat umask=000 0 0

Note the spaces, save, reboot and check /osshare.

Thank you very much for your reply, I will try it tonight.
My second hard disk is using NTFS, now i know that linux is not able to write to NTFS, but can read. Will the windows machines that are able to see my NTFS partition able to read/write, or only read?

Thank you very much.