There is a page on how to write to Windows 2000/XP from Linux at

http://linux.coconia.net

However, it doesn't seem to work for Mandriva 2006.

Could anyone help me getting it to work with Mandriva?

Someone probably could if you could tell us how it isn't working.
Please be detailed, what have you tried? what didn't work? What errors did you get?

We are willing to help but we cannot read minds over an ethernet cable (yet!)

I got the warning about Module.symvers that the article mentions, and that is all.

Apart from that, everything seemed to work, except it didn't.

Am using the stock kernel = vmlinux-2.6.12-12mdk and sources.

Well on my OpenSUSE 10.0 (kernel 2.6.13-15) writing to my WinXP PRO partition (FAT32) works fine :/
But it's not the answer to your question :/

"But it's not the answer to your question"

Indeed it is not. Linux has always had good read and write capabilities to FAT32 (VFAT). Captive gave it read and write capability to NTFS.

What else would you need to know in order to help?

During the compilation of the FUSE programs, there was a warning about a missing file, called Module.symvers.

After that the stock kernel could not find the new kernel module.

I found that it was expecting to find it at another location so copied the kernel module to where it was expecting it.

That enabled one to mount the NTFS partitions read/write. However whenever one tried to write to them Captive collapsed in a big heap.

Any ideas?

What is the file Module.symvers for?

bulliver, I thought you said someone might help out. So far zip, nothing.

Hello,.. anyone out there?

So, you know nothing about getting Captive to work with Mandriva 2006.

Do you know anything about getting the ATI drivers to work with Mandriva 2006?

I must stress that writting to NTFS isn't mature yet. Hence it's considered to be unsafe. U will need a fat32 partition then mount it if your distro doesn't do it fro u.

This is not really true.
Captive uses Windows binaries to read/write NTFS.

Captive uses Wine to run the Windows binaries -- Wine is just a collection of Windows system binaries, rewritten (rewritten from scratch) to run on Linux. These system binaries have been proved to run well and will run most Windows programs on Linux.

FUSE (filesystem in user space) is somewhat unknown and runs well in some cases.

Captive was mature years ago when first introduced by Jan. His software relied on a package (LUFS) which quickly became unsupported and soon his program would not work with standard Linux distributions. The code was recently rewritten to use FUSE.

I'm still interested in info concerning ATI drivers and Mandriva 2006.

Since 2.6.15, the Kernel has removed the tag of experimental/testing from NTFS read/write. I have tested the NTFS read/write from my SuSE 10.1 beta to my Windows XP box with NTFS. It works flawlessly. I have been told that you need to have your NTFS drives clean and defragmented constantly, but as I am a defrag whore and do it about 2 times a week anywho, can't say I have been in a position to test a dirty disk.

Secondarily, you can compile the ATI drivers as shell scripts from ATI's website on any distro(supposedly) including Mandriva. So just go to ATI.com, linux drivers, x86 or x86_64 and then download the .run. Once you have the .run, as root in the terminal cd to the download location then "./ati________.run" and you should have ATI drivers assuming you have all the prereqs installed.(/dev/shm, agp_gart, gcc, Kernel Source.)

Edit: this means you just need 2.6.15 or higher installed as your kernel. So you may have to upgrade it yourself.

What if u're running 2.6.12-9? Can u still write to NTFS