Access redhat9 files from windows xp

[Jim Smith]

Rick;

It has been a while since I messed with this, but don't you have to
recompile you kernel to get NTFS support in Red Hat?  When you do, as I
remember, you have the option to have NTFS - Read Only as well as Read/Write
and that is flagged as experimental, you are crazy if you use this option,
etc. .  .   .

SuSE comes out of the box with Read only capabilities for NTFS volumes.
Works fine.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 1:04 PM
To: hmann at itgroundwork.com; Getting started with Red Hat Linux
Subject: Re: Access redhat9 files from windows xp


>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.
>
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