acessing windows drives from linux?

[Charbo]

which distros allow acess to windows drives in linux? i know suse does but are there any others?

 

[straightv6]

what format are the windows drives?

 

[s0me0ne]

probibly netbios/smb. The quick answer all of them. cmd line if your friend, dont fear it. man mount. look for smbfs.... or check here. http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/mount.8.html may not be pretty but it will be simple and easy. And nerdyer!

 

[Charbo]

the drive is ntfs. i will try that s0me0ne thanks

 

[Sevoma]

EDIT: I reread your post and nvm.

If you want something easy, go with PcLinuxOS. I think it mounts NTFS no prob, as it is based on Mandriva I think. http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/

I personaly like Debian, but it has a little bit more of a learning curve. I will check if this can mount ntfs partitions easily.

 

[Nitestick]

the two mini-distro's i keep going on about can mount NTFS now i think, Puppy and DSL. i still stick to the good old FAT32 though so haven't actually tested it yet. the main reason i still use FAT32 is as far as i've seen it is more compatable with linux

 

[Deathwalker]

Most distros will now allow you to read an NTFS partition, but writing to it is still "experimental" and is NOT recommended.

 

[digital-angel]

You can almost access a windows partition with NTFS file system by using this command if you have the NTFS partition on partition 3 (an example) and this is the first HDD:

mount -t ntfs /dev/hda3 /mnt/windows

The directory /mnt/windows have to exist and the third partition also have to exist, but this was just an example though.

 

[zsuatt]

Almost all new distros do ntfs, but it is still experimental
so you should really stick to your good old fat32, or convert your filesystem back to fat32.
Unless you wanna access it read-only

 

[Charbo]

fat32 is supposed to be and i think can only be used on smaller drives all but 1 of my drives is over 120 gig but ya i just wanted to be read only anyway but i have a server with linux on it now so it doesnt matter cause all the space is for linux only and i can access windows stuff over network. thanks for all the help guys