[SATLUG] DSL Network

[Charles D Hogan]

That hdb3 is set up as an ext3 filesystem really shouldn't be a bother.
Check to make sure that samba is running.
Check to make sure that you have not firewalled it by mistake.
Check user permisions on the shared directory.
Try connecting to it from the XP box using it;s IP address, as opposed 
to its name.

Ken Speedie wrote:

>I recently got my home DSL Network up and running.  I am running RH 9.0
>on my desktop and Windows XP on my wifes laptop.  Everything seems to be
>working except I can't get my wifes machine to "see" my files.
>
>I have a 14G partition on hdb3 that I want to use to store jpegs from
>digital cameras.  Right now they are on my wifes laptop and they are
>eating up real estate on her HD. The point of this exercise is to set it
>up so that she can look at my HD partition, pick the pictures she wants
>and delete them from her system when she is through with them.
>
>So far I can get my linux machine to "see" the files we designated on
>the XP machine but we can't seem to get the XP machine to "see" the
>partition on my linux partition.
>
>I am running linneighborhood and used "redhat-config-samba" to make the
>linux partition (hdb3) available to the network.
>
>df -h gives
>
>[root at linux ken]# df -h
>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>/dev/hda2              18G  4.6G   12G  28% /
>/dev/hda1              99M  9.2M   85M  10% /boot
>none                  247M     0  247M   0% /dev/shm
>/dev/fd0              1.4M  1.3M  177K  88% /mnt/floppy
>/dev/hdb2             4.5G  457M  3.8G  11% /home/ken/backup
>/dev/hdb3              14G   33M   14G   1% /home/ken/pictures
>//IBMTHINKPAD/My_Pictures
>                       12G  7.1G  4.2G  64%
>/home/ken/mnt/IBMTHINKPAD/My_Pictures
>
>//LINUX/pictures       14G  750M   14G   6% /home/ken/mnt/LINUX/pictures
>
>
>Is there something we need to do in XP to make it recognize my partition
>on the network?
>
>Hdb3 uses ext3 file system.  Maybe the problem is that XP can't "see"
>ext3 files?  If that were the case the XP machine should at least find
>the folder and then show the folder to be empty because it could not
>read the files.
>
>I downloaded and installed "kernel-ntfs-2.4.20-6.i686.rpm" from 
>
>http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/index.html.
>
>cat /proc/filesystem told me that ntfs was installed.
>
>When I tried to remount hdb3 with ntfs I got the error message that it
>was the wrong file system.  When I rebooted, ntfs disappeared from
>/proc/filesystems.
>
>When I rebooted I also got an error message "*** Unresolved symbols in
>/var/lib/lufs/lufs.o"  Error went away when I rebooted again.
>
>
>Any help will be appreciated.
>
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