sharing files...

[Lokeey]

okay cool...that's what i figured...thanks for the prompt reply guys!

On 1/20/07, Richard S. Crawford <rscrawford at mossroot.com> wrote:
>
> 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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