sharing files...

[Richard S. Crawford]

On Saturday 20 January 2007 09:59, Lokeey wrote:
> hey all, i'm having trouble copying files over from kubuntu (edgy) to my
> windows (xp) partition...i've enabled sharing, but it still does not allow
> me to do this.
>
> i'm able to view and copy from the windows partition to kubuntu but not the
> other way around.
>
> what's the best way to get this working.

Your XP partition is using the NTFS filesystem, which Linux does not talk to 
very well; Linux can read from NTFS filesystems fine, but writing to them is 
spotty at best.  Someone has been developing an NTFS kernel module, but it's 
experimental and comes with plenty of warnings.

Whenever I choose to have a partition shared between a Windows OS and Linux OS 
on one computer, I set up that partition as FAT32.  I usually make that 
partition pretty small, since FAT32 is not as efficient as either NTFS or 
ext3, but both OSes talk to it just fine.  I actually haven't done this for 
quite awhile, because I very rarely use Windows anymore, and because I have a 
fileserver where I keep most of my stuff anyway.

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