[hblug] Penultimate More on File Systems

[Michael Adams]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:16:32 +1200
Perry Spiller wrote:

> Michael said:
> 
> >There's the guilty party! That is strange.
> >
> >Before I tell you how to change that, is the read/write to the
> >windows side of this computer an issue. Do you save things in Windows
> >on this box from Linux. In other words if it aint broke lets not fix
> >it.
> 
> There now seems to be no problems, either way,
> across the network. I can open, read and save WP
> files to my wife's Xandros PC from my W2kP PC.

No, this funny naming issue has to do with the windows partition on the
linux PC. Reading and writing to that partition from linux.

More info graphically.
 ________________________________
|        Linux PC                |
|(hda[/] [/home]) (hdb[Windows]) |
 --------------------------------
    |
    |
 Network
    |
    |
 __________
| Win2k PC |
 ----------

Writing over the network works great. Ignore the Win2k machine.

When you are in linux and you want to save a OpenOffice file for Windows
on hdb (the windows partition) ON THE SAME MACHINE can it be done ok.
Then you would have to shut down linux to reboot it into windows98 or
whatever and read the file saved from linux.

Follow?

> In a like manner, I can open, read and save WP
> files to my W2kP PC from my wife's Xandros PC.
> 
> So, as you observed, it aint now broke so I'll leave
> it alone.
> 
> Perry           
> 
>