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Posted by: MojoInKansas

I'll say right up front, i'm posting this from my Win2K partition, so I can't see what fstab looks like now. I have 3 windows partitions i wanna be able to see from Linux. Well, actually, I see and can read from them just fine... but what do I have to change in the mounting so I can WRITE to the parts as well?

Posted by: MojoInKansas

sh*t. shoulda mentioned that they are in fact FAT32. (partitioned it that way 'cuz i KNEW i wanted to play with linux).

Posted by: gruntwerk

Okay,
su then
mkdir /mnt/dosc

open /etc/fstab in your editor of choice...
add a line at the bottom

/dev/hda1 /mnt/dosc vfat users,owner,rw,umask=000 0 0

(* /hda1 is first partition ...
use /hda2 etc...
the dosc is just a name -- adjust to your own preferences *)

save the fstab file and go back to your console session...
type mount -a
Your C drive should be available under /mnt/dosc

if you want read only access.. change the rw to ro...

Posted by: MojoInKansas

gotcha. thanks.

Posted by: Lostman

You have Samba installed?

Posted by: ADZ

wat exactly does samba do?

Posted by: Lostman

Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License.

[url]http://us3.samba.org/samba/samba.html[/url]