Can Samba Write file on a WinXP machine??

[chrisP]

Im a little new to linux/samba and I think I saw that samba doesnt support writing to a WinXp machine but I want to make sure..

I might jsut have somwthing configured incorrectly..

[chikn]

I write to my WinXP MP3 servers drive all day long from Mandy.

[ 07 April 2002: Message edited by: chikn ]

[chrisP]

can you access the samba drives from the bash shell??

[Icarus]

IF your using NTFS on the XP machine, I don't think samba can write to it, but can read. Most companies ship WinXP using FAT32, not NTFS.

[chrisP]

Well I did find a way, by mounted the shared folder and then I can write to it..

I was trying to use Konqueror, which I think sucks but Im not good enough yet to make that call..

[liquidfx13]

i write to an NTFS drive all the time via samba.....no probs

[Bokkenka]

It works because the Linux box isn't writing directly to the XP box hard-drive... It's just passing the files to it and basic'ly saying, "Hey, write this down." The XP box takes care of the read/writes on it's own hard-drive.