re: windows and linux file sharing
Hi Everybody
I am using Red Hat Linux 8.0 and windows 98 and XP on the separate disks I want to share files between them but the filenames which linux takes is the 8.3 format isn't that long filename supported betwwen win and linux plz help rahul |
It is easy to access your windows files from Linux, just mount it like this:
cd /mnt mkdir redunantWindowsPartition mount -t ntfs /dev/somehdpar redundantWindowsPartition Where "somehdpar" is the partition containing your WinXP (for example /dev/hda1). I don't think you will be ablte to write to the WinXP partition, because it is NTFS5 (or something like that). If this works, you could consider adding it to /etc/fstab:D |
NTFS Partition
what u r saying may work fine with NTFS Partition
but i am using dual boot with win 98 and xp and all of the partitions on my harddisk are FAT32 i want that long filename support on the FAT32 partition form linux as is provided by my windows |
It looks like what theCoffeeMug suggested is the nfs way of doing it. Is that right? Wouldn't pcnfs have to be installed on the winnt machine?
There's also the samba approach, using smbmount. |
Long filenames on fat volumes have been supported by Linux for years. You need to be sure that either
1. is compiled in to your kernel, or 2. the module vfat is loaded In case 1., you are done. Otherwise check if the file vfat.o is located somewhere below /lib/modules/<kernel version>/, and verify the file /etc/modules.conf (only when using autoloading). Alternatively, do a modprobe vfat before mounting your windows disks. |
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