Networked hard drive

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 15 March 2007, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> On 3/15/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 March 2007, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> > > On 3/15/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > I'm certain you'll get answers from folks with more direct experience
> > > in this sort of thing than I, but I'll toss my $.02 just so you can
> > > start looking around in the mean time.
> > >
> > > Given the market share of Windows PC's, your hard drive is probably
> > > advertising itself as a Windows share of some sort.  There are
> > > probably LInux based tools to "browse" the windows network and to
> > > attach to your hard drive -- they may even be integrated into
> > > Gnome/KDE at this point.
> >
> > I should have said that I have formatted the larger part of the drive as
> > ext3 and a small part as vfat.  Maybe I have to go back to usb connection
> > and set the partitions as shareable, so that samba can read them.
>
> I would expect that whatever firmware is in your drive would know
> about vfat (and possibly NTFS), but would not know about ext3.  Of
> course, I could be very pleasantly surprised about that.
>
Even if that were so, I'd expect the vfat partition to show up.

Anne