Access redhat9 files from windows xp

[Rick Stevens]

Harper Mann wrote:
> What about Samba?  It will set up shares on RH 9 that XP can see.

Yes, but these are on the same machine.  When XP is running, RH9 isn't,
thus Samba won't be running.  He needs _native_ ext2/ext3 support under
XP, which he won't find.

Alternately, he can run RH9 on FAT partitions, but it's horribly
inefficient.  Or he can mount a FAT partition under RH9 and write to
that.  XP will be able to see that.  If he wants to mount and use NTFS,
he'll need the NTFS filesystem modules that Red Hat doesn't supply.  I
have some on the RHIL website, but I've been very, very lax about
keeping it updated.  I suppose I will have to get on it again.

[snip]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Bob McClure Jr
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 9:06 AM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: Access redhat9 files from windows xp
> 
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:36:58AM +0000, Nofriyadi Nurdam wrote:
> 
>>Hi all, I have Windows XP and Redhat9 on my computer.
>>I want to access redhat9 files from windows xp.
>>Do you know how to access redhat9 files from XP?
>>Thanks in advance
>>Nofriyadi
> 
> 
> You can't get there from here, not out of the box, anyway.  Microsoft
> refuses to admit that Linux exists, so it has no way to read ext2 or
> ext3 filesystems.  You can, however, within linux, write to a FAT32
> filesystem (but not an NTFS filesystem), and Windoze can read and
> write to that.
> 
> That said, have a look at
> 
> http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2.html
> 
> specifically
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd
> 
> but bear in mind it is alpha software.
> 
> Cheers,


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