Sharing Files Between Windows and Linux

[JavaCowboy]

I would like to know the most efficient method that I can use to share files between Windows and Linux. I have a lot of MP3s that are on one of my Windows partitions, and, in order to listen to them, I generally enter the /mnt/win_c directory to access these files.

This works just fine, but I'm wondering if there's a better way, or whether what I'm doing is somehow harmful to my system.

I suppose I could copy all the files to my Linux drive, but I have over 1 Gb of MP3's and I don't want to cause that much duplication.

[pbharris]

samba!!! there is quite a great deal of documentation, for mounting a windows drive to a linux box you don't need a smb.conf file.

[Strike]

Um, what's wrong with what you are doing? I do it all the time. It's fine.

[Strike]

pbharris, samba is for sharing files between two computers on a network - this is one computer he's talking about

[Craig McPherson]

Originally posted by pbharris:
<STRONG>samba</STRONG>

Umm... Samba is a free re-implementation of the SMB filesharing protocol designed to run on UNIX systems. It has NOTHING to do with mounting physical partitions on the local system. Samba has no concept of vfat, the only foreign filesystem Samba understand is SMBFS, for mounting remote SMB fileshares over a network.

[andromat]

If mounting the partition every time you need to access your mp3s is what you find bothersome, you could simply add the entry for this partition in /etc/fstab so it would be mounted automatically whenever you start Linux. Hope this helps

[Blake]

As others have posted. Samba is only for mounting drives on remote systems via the SMB protocol and usually only allows winblows to mount unix drives. There are a couple of cool tools for going the other way.

Anyway, if you are running NTFS on the windows side then I don't think you can do it. But if it's FAT then do as mentioned in a previous reply. Put it in you fstab file, labeled as a fat parition and your off. Tyr doing a manpage for fstab and see if it helps.

[Craig McPherson]

Linux has full read-only support for NTFS filesystems, including NTFS5. There's also experimental read-write support, however it goes beyond risky: it does damage to the filesystem 100% of the time, so the best you can hope for with it is that it'll leave the filesystem in a repairable state. The people developing it are also being sued for Microsoft, because MS doesn't want people reverse-engineering its "ultra advanced" (cough) filesystem.

[fow99]

How about a ln?

[wendo]

this may be of no use to you but you could try out wine.


type wine into your search engine and you find a copy for your needs.

Good luck

Wendo