Paul M Foster wrote:
> michael hast wrote:
>
>> Hey, everybody!
>>
>> Last night, I completed my first dual-boot installation! When I
>> had asked about it before, the answer has basically been, oh, it's
>> easy. Well, I'm here to tell you that the first time setting up a
>> dual-boot XP/Debian is not easy. It will be a whole lot easier next
>> time, that's for sure! This computer that I worked on all day
>> yesterday is my brother's. He needs some M$ Office stuff, but still
>> wants Linux. So, I decided to just figure out how to do it. One
>> thing that I have noticed, though, is that I cannot see one
>> filesystem with the other one. This concerns me since that was part
>> of the point of setting it up as a dual-boot is so that he could play
>> with documents on either side of the coin and still save them in the
>> same place. How do I do this? Am I destine to reinstall again, or
>> can I simply slip another carefully formatted partition in
>> somewhere? Any and all help welcome. Thank you!
>>
>
> For the Linux box to see the Windows filesystems, you only have to
> mount them under Linux. That involves tweaking your /etc/fstab file as
> root. This would entail adding a line such as:
>
> /dev/hdb1 /mnt ntfs defaults 0 0
>
> to that file. You would obviously change the first parameter (device),
> second parameter (mount point), and third parameter (filesystem type)
> to suit your needs. Your references are man 5 fstab and man 8 mount.
>
> For your Windows box to see your Linux filesystem(s), you need Samba
> installed and configured on your Linux box. That's a bit more
> complicated. It's primarily a question of tweaking your
> /etc/samba/smb.conf. Since there are about 138,345,837,502 ways of
> configuring this file, I won't detail it here. I'd suggest a brief
> tutorial on Samba. Passwords are key. Since I have a small network
> (two people, five machines), I ensure unencrypted passwords, which
> involves an edit to your Windows' machine's registry. But others
> advocate against this. Your choice. Once you get this file the way you
> want it, save it in two or three places. That way, when you have to
> set up another machine to use Samba, you can use this file as a model,
> without having to remember all the arcane bits.
>
>
how do I determine what to set up the mount point as? I know that it's
not as simple as making something up--or is it? Is there a standard
thing that I need to put in there for that purpose?
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