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CHRYSt
08-01-2001, 02:48 PM
Hey. I'm a n00b, naturally. But I've got enough experience that I've started using RedHat as my primary desktop.
Anyway, I can mount my remaining windows partitions just fine as MSDOS. The problem is that Linux doesn't see the files long names. It displays everything as "progra~1" and stuff.
I didn't see anything about it in the HOWTO or any other docs, but is there a mount type that can see long file names? Like win95 or some such? Or could I mount it as NTFS?
I know samba shows it properly, but you can only use smbmount over a network, right?

Any help would be nice. Thanks. :)

Dagda
08-01-2001, 03:35 PM
when u use the mount command use vfat as your type not msdos.

CHRYSt
08-01-2001, 04:41 PM
thanks, I'll give it a try when I get home. :)

CHRYSt
08-01-2001, 08:15 PM
Yay! Worked like a charm, thanks!