Hi,
BACKGROUND:
I'm dual booting with winXP on an NTFS partition, and
Mandrake 9.1 on my second partition. The rest of the pc's at
work are all running winXP.
WHAT I WANT TO DO:
1) Be able to write files to my winXP partition. through my searches i found that i need a fat32 partition aswell since Linux can't write to ntfs yet?
2) I want to be able to read/write files to the shared folders on the winXP pc's on the network.
DONE SO FAR:
Currently i got it right to mount shared folders using my /etc/fstab file. in the file i added the options ,rw,_netdev
to make it read-write and state that i need network connection before mounting the drives... now on startup in linux the drives are mounted... and i can copy from them, but cannot copy TO them.
MY QUESTIONS:
1) Whats the easiest way of converting some of my NTFS free space to FAT32 so that i can create a new partition where Linux and windows can read/write to ?
2) How do i get it right to have read-write permissions on the shared folders ? All the shared folders give full control to all users on the network.. but that doesn't seem to fix it ??
I've been going at this problem for a week now... please ... i need help.
Thanks in advance.
