winXP drives

hammam · 05-08-2006, 08:30 AM

Hi all,
How to access winXP drives within linux. I went to remote:smb shares/workgroup/then my computer. The linux system asks me to enter username and password of the drive i selected. Could somebody tells me these information ? or how could i get them ?
... thanx
Mohammed Hammam
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pixellany · 05-08-2006, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by hammam

Hi all,
How to access winXP drives within linux. I went to remote:smb shares/workgroup/then my computer. The linux system asks me to enter username and password of the drive i selected. Could somebody tells me these information ? or how could i get them ?
... thanx
Mohammed Hammam
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Are you accessing shared drives on another (running) computer? If so, then your method should work. The username and password will depend on who owns the shared drives.

If you mean accessing the Windows drives on your box, then your method won't work. You have to mount the drive and then read it just like any other directory. If NTFS, you have to have a kernel with NTFS support.

For sharing data, the better approach is a commong FAT32 drive---easily viewed by both Windows and Linux.

hammam · 05-09-2006, 11:56 AM

Hi pixellany,
Thank you for your response. My windows drives are FAT32, I can view the drives using network browsing in linux but I want to access (read/write) the data on them. Is ther another way besides share folders in linux we can access data (read/write.
... thanx
Mohammed Hammam