How to veiw a FAT32 partition under Linux

[CrazyRomanian]

I am running Fedora 3 and am wondering whether it is possible to view my XP, ME and 98 partitions which are all FAT32 from linux. I heard of this Samba thing that came with my distro but have no idea how to use it. Also is it possible to view my linux partition from windows.

 

[CrazyRomanian]

ok did some diggin foned some frends and got some help but i just wanna be sure. I have created a /mnt/WinXP on my hard drive. I have identified the partition i want to view, hda8. So i added the following:
/dev/hda8 /mnt/WinXP vfat users,owner,rw,umask=022 0 0
so my fstab should look like this:
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

/dev/hda8 /mnt/WinXP vfat users,owner,rw,umask=022 0 0



where the last line is the new partition. Is that right cos i dont want to stuff up my linux.

 

[horndude]

it should work, yes

samba is for sharing files with windows machines across a network, not on the same machine

 

[CrazyRomanian]

thanks, i got it working in the end, took the plunge and thankfully it worked. I still dont understand samba tho.

Thanks anyway