[H-GEN] Sharing folders on SMB - Mandrake 9.2

[Stephen Brine]

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Hmm I discovered the same sort of thing in MD9.1 (which i think is what 
Alex is referring to, as, as far as i am aware MD9.2 is not released yet, 
at least to the public) which is on a dual boot system with XP pro. the Xp 
partition is mounted in the linux tree and is fat32. If I create/copy a 
file from linux partition on the windows partition it appears as the file 
there, it has size and shape can be read or unzipped (as the case was for 
me) BUT under XP did not appear in the directory it was put in. BUT on a 
subsequent scandisk of XP about a hundred or more crosslinked files and 
other 'errors' were detected and fixed by xp, which revealed the two files 
(again my case) in the directories where I put them BUT there were severely 
corrupted, including the raw text file I created. This (is a guess) may be 
something stupid that MS has done to xp fat32 filesystem I don't know. It 
may be another bug in MD's SMB ??? I solved the problem using FTP onto 
another box then ftp back.

         Regards,
                 Steve B

At 13:03 15/06/2003 +1000, you wrote:
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>I am wrestling with Mandrake 9.2.
>I have the network set up as a static ip network with a w2k machine as
>the internet gateway.
>On the Linux machine I can see my xp machine and a share called
>SharedDocs. In the /mnt/ folder I have the SharedDocs directory mounted.
>I thought this meant I would see the files on the XP machine in this
>folder!
>
>I opened vi as root and made a test file called 'test'which is in the
>/mnt/SharedDocs folder (directory!)
>On the XP machine I have a file called mini.txt in the ScaredDocs
>folder.
>
>On the linux machine I can only see the file I made on the linux
>machine. On the XP machine I can only see the file I made on the XP
>machine.
>
>What am I doing wrong?
>
>Alex Delaforce
>   Director of Technology
>     Ormiston College
>       [**alextdel at bigpond.net.au**]
>         [**dir.tech at ormiston.qld.edu.au**]
>
>
>
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