Linux and Windows network

[alski]

Hello,
I had a PC built with removable Hard Drives, meaning, one drive has Win XP on it, and the other removeable has Red Hat Linux 9. Since I had the Drive with Linux on it non formatted from the store and no Drive letter associated, I assume I will not be able to Network this Drive with my other PC's that has Windows ME on them, even with Samba, is this correct??

[Modorf]

(scratching head while trying to understand question).

Network the drives how??
How do you propose doing this?

Nathan.

[alski]

Nathan,
Ok, let's do it this way. The 2nd Drive came unformatted from the store, I let Red Hat format the drive, linux gave this drive HDA, will I be able to add the Linux drive to my network using Samba. Did I explain this better?
Thanks

[Modorf]

As long as you have Samba installed, configured, and running then you can use it to network the two computers together.
I thought you were refering to getting a network hard drive device.

Nathan.

[alski]

Ok, thanks very much. So I assume the job of Samba, is to allow the Windows PC to see the Linux PC, and visa versa, even though Windows Explorer does not see the Linux Hard Drive?

[homey]

If you setup samba correctly, the windows computers will be able to access files on your linux computer.

[alski]

Ok thank you all/

[bwkaz]

It doesn't matter what filesystem your drive uses. SMB (the protocol that Samba and Network Neighborhood use) is independent of filesystem type (and if it wasn't, Samba would be emulating anyway).

Doesn't matter that Windows itself doesn't understand whatever filesystem you're using. SMB makes the FS transparent.