sharing drives

[47stoney47]

Hey guys,

I'm currently dual booting mandrake 9.1 with windows xp, what i'm trying to do is share a drive/folder that's not in a /usr/home, it's on it's own fat32 partition that i use in wondows, is there a way to do this?? Everytime i try Mandrake says that i can only share home dirs

Thanks

[Hayl]

you cant "share" a drive to another O/S on a dual-boot computer. sharing is for sharing across a network.

i think what you want it how to mount a directory taht both windows and linux can see?

if that is the case then you should be able to mount any fat32 windows partition on that box from linux.

[michaelk]

I will assume that you want to share a FAT32 partition on your dual boot PC on the network using linux. The FAT32 partition needs to have a /etc/fstab entry and mounted on boot.

You will need to create a share in the smb.conf file that points to the FAT32 partition. Something like this:

[music] (share name)
path=/mnt/"FAT32 partition mount point"
guest ok = yes
writable = yes

Change share name and mountpoint as desired.
See documentation at www.samba.org. Assuming that you select samba during the install process the default smb.conf file shows several examples for different shares.