Browsing a Windows shared directory?

[William Hooper]

Doug B  said:
>
> On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 05:36, Bryan Anderson wrote:
>> Dual-booting - when logged into Windows, I can see the two shared
>> directories on my other WindowsXP box. I can read, write, delete,
>> etc, no problem.
>>
>> Now - how do I do the same thing in Linux? I want to be in Linux
>> and still be able to access the Windows shares on the other XP box.
>>
>
> I see it's an XP box.  If the shared directories are ntfs then you won't
> be able to read them with a default RH install. Last time I checked, RH
> did not enable NTFS.  Plenty of threads and info on this by searching.

Kernel NTFS support has nothing to do with Samba shares.  The local system
reads the filesystem and translates it to SMB.  How else would MS Windows
machines be able to see samba shares on an ext3 file system?

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William Hooper