Re: mounting vfat partition on boot up

From: Sybren Stüvel (sybrenUSE_at_YOURimagination.thirdtower.com)
Date: 11/20/03


Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:55:42 +0100

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:38:41 -0800, disco wrote:

> Can somone point me to a link or howto going in the opposite direction and
> between two separate machines?

What does this have to do with this thread?

> I have a RH8 box running on a network and I would like to make the root
> directory available in such a way that that it can be be mounted/mapped as
> a drive in Windows 2000. I need to know the steps to set up the linux
> side and the correct syntax to the map the drive on the Windows side. Is
> this where I would use SAMBA?

And why are you too lazy to read about Samba on their homepage and take a
look? If you can't even be bothered to go there and read a bit, then I
can't be bothered to help you.

Sybren

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//\   A: God can change the byte order on the CPU, root can't.
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