Accessing XP Share on same computer

[VanCowboy]

I have a dual boot system with RHL 7.3 and Windoze XP and I need to access my XP partition documents. I also am running a windows 2000 server at home and need to access that also. Can someone please point me in the right direction so that I can access both of these M$ shares?

Thanks in advance.
VanCowboy

[MarcRochkind]

Very generally, to access the XP file systems on the SAME computer, you can mount them. Something like this:

# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windowsC

(On my SuSE system, it understands automatically how to deal with the Windows NTFS file system.)

As for the other machine running Windows (call it "XYZ"), you use Samba to access its files. With Samba running and the appropriate shares set up on the Windows machine, you mount them too, like this:

# smbmount //XYZ/C /mnt/XYZC

The exact commands for RH 7.3 I don't know.

[VanCowboy]

Very generally, to access the XP file systems on the SAME computer, you can mount them. Something like this:
# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windowsC

I do that and I get:
mount: mount point /mnt/windowsC does not exist

Does the "windowsC" have to be the same name as the share? Or is it just refereing to the root directory?

As for the other machine running Windows (call it "XYZ"), you use Samba to access its files. With Samba running and the appropriate shares set up on the Windows machine, you mount them too, like this:
# smbmount //XYZ/C /mnt/XYZC


I try that and I get:
could not resolve mount point /mnt/servername/sharename

Any suggestions?

[Xander Solis]

You have to create /mnt/windows.
You can put that in your fstab so that you can automount the partition and for your linux system to mount the partition.
Also verify if you have NTFS and vfat filesystem support in your kernel.
This is because you cant mount windows' partitions if you dont have em.

Originally posted by VanCowboy


I do that and I get:
mount: mount point /mnt/windowsC does not exist

Does the "windowsC" have to be the same name as the share? Or is it just refereing to the root directory?





I try that and I get:
could not resolve mount point /mnt/servername/sharename

Any suggestions?