On 3/15/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
On Thursday 15 March 2007, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> On 3/15/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> I'm certain you'll get answers from folks with more direct experience
> in this sort of thing than I, but I'll toss my $.02 just so you can
> start looking around in the mean time.
>
> Given the market share of Windows PC's, your hard drive is probably
> advertising itself as a Windows share of some sort. There are
> probably LInux based tools to "browse" the windows network and to
> attach to your hard drive -- they may even be integrated into
> Gnome/KDE at this point.
>
I should have said that I have formatted the larger part of the drive as ext3
and a small part as vfat. Maybe I have to go back to usb connection and set
the partitions as shareable, so that samba can read them.
I would expect that whatever firmware is in your drive would know
about vfat (and possibly NTFS), but would not know about ext3. Of
course, I could be very pleasantly surprised about that.
--wpd