A question about Mandrake 10 vs Fedora

shaj · 04-05-2004, 01:10 AM

I had installed Fedora a couple of days ago. Excellent Distribution. But I had no idea that it had no native support for NTFS partitions. So somewhat useless for me.

What surprised me though was the fact that I had instant access to a network neighborhood like icon which took me to all the Win98 shared computers on my network.

Is there any way to get such a link on Mandrake 10 Community automatically like Fedora?

Thanks in advance...

aesahaettr · 04-05-2004, 02:10 AM

If you are using KDE, simply make a link on the desktop to smb:/ , and this will bring up a list of all networks like windows browsing in konqueror.
Easy as...

shaj · 04-05-2004, 02:38 AM

Thanks aesahaettr...

am currently in Windows...will try it once in Linux...

also...one more question...

any possibility at all of opening Access database in Linux?

I'd rather not have to convert it and stuff...

aesahaettr · 04-08-2004, 02:36 AM

Unfortunately, I don't think so and I doubt any way that does work will work very well.

dredgemortle · 04-08-2004, 03:50 PM

I was going thru LinNeighborhood with the shares mounted, but you have to be running LinNeigh for the mnt to work. The simple link is alot better, thanks.

C++Boar · 04-09-2004, 09:42 AM

I am using jags v0.22.1 with mandrake 10.

However I had to modify some script in /home/myuser/.jags/plugins/samba....

(to make it work with a username / password for a win2k machine)

reading win98-shares with jags should not be a problem.

you have to install some gtk before you can install jags.

C++Boar