Ubuntu Networking :: Share Windows Hard Drive?
Feb 27, 2011I got a wireless network. 1pc running win xp and one laptop running ubuntu. I want to share my windows hard drive, and access it on my (ubuntu) laptop.
View 1 RepliesI got a wireless network. 1pc running win xp and one laptop running ubuntu. I want to share my windows hard drive, and access it on my (ubuntu) laptop.
View 1 RepliesI am buying a new laptop and am curious about dual booting it. I currently run Ubuntu full time, but will need windows for a few applications. (there are no cross over applications to do this)
When you put both windows and ubuntu on a computer do you share the hard drive? Meaning would I be able to access all my music in windows and then restart my computer-run ubuntu, would I have access to all the files?
I am trying to share a hard drive on the network. (Essentially the hard drive is for another computer which didn't have the physical space for it so this computer is like a holding place for the hd). I read somewhere that I can use samba to do this. But in all honesty I have no idea what I am doing. What would be the best way to share this drive? Also understand, I know little about networking.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have two computers with ubuntu 10.04 installed. They both connect to the same wireless router. One computer has an external hard drive that has music, pictures and some documents. another thing, the hard drive has been formatted to ext4. I would like to be able to access that external hard drive from my other computer. I read some post on how to connect to the server through ssh but i think it's the intruction are too old. I tried nfs for server/client, but couldn't set it up, it was a little complicated.
View 1 Replies View Relatedi am using fedora 11 and i want to share my western digital external hard drive over my wireless network like i previousely did with my windows os. it is connected via usb to my computer. how do i do this ?
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy friend has a Windows 7 desktop with a large data hard drive which is set up to allow other users to connect to remotely, such that they have read and write access. To set up a connection from another Windows machine, it is as simple as right clicking in the My Computer window and selecting "New Network Connection", then entering the information requested.
The information my friend as given me is:
- The IP Address
- The Hard Drive's Name
- A Username and Password
I have a Ubuntu box with two drives, one of them is where Ubuntu is installed and the other one is where I store all my music, photos and other documents. I recently bought a Mac and I want to be able to access the drive where I have all my documents from my Mac. Is there a way to accomplish this? I've been looking all day for an answer to this but all I can find is how to share a folder instead of a whole drive.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a hard drive with 10 partitions, 4 primary, 6 locgical. I would like to share the entire hard drive via a file server. The har drive is a seprate disk from my main operating system hard drive. I think that means I cant use links? How can I set this up?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm using Ubuntu Lucid as the host OS and Windows XP SP3 as the guest one. Is it possible to share an entire hard drive with the guest OS?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've been searching for a way to do this with no luck. I've got a 1TB external hard drive I used to share over the network from my Windows desktop -- which is now a Ubuntu desktop.I've tried setting it up as a samba share, and the closest I've gotten is mount error(12): Cannot allocate memory. I've tried the suggestions (editing /etc/security/limits.conf), and that removed the warning I got from testparms but didn't fix the mounting on my mythtv box.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have been trying to share folders from my main PC which is running Ubuntu 10.04. I have been able to figure out Samba enough to get my a couple of folders shared, but I have been unable to share any folders which are on my external harddrive. After entering the path in my smb.conf file they appear on the network but I am unable to navigate to them. When trying to navigate to them through the network folder on the pc they are actually connected to I get an "Unable to mount location: Failed to mount windows share" dialog box. On the windows pc I am trying to share with I get, "Windows cannot acces \Josh-Desktop
ame of folder"
My smb.conf file looks like this:
That folders I cannot access are Music and Videos.
I have Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows XP running each one in a partition of two different hard drives. I want to install Windows 7 in a second partition of the hard drive where Ubuntu is running. Windows 7 did not see the hard drive where Ubuntu is running. So I understand that I need to format the partition where Ubuntu is running, install Windows 7 and later on Ubuntu 10.04 which will create the boot for the three systems. But I want to backup Ubuntu's installation, and after installing Windows 7, install the backup. So I will need to add the file for the dual booting. How can I do it? Is it there any piece of software that could create the three booting option that I need?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've a Windows and a Ubuntu Machine on the same network.I've a shared folder on my Windows machine.I need to permanently map it to drive letter in Ubuntu, just like a hard disk.Think of mapping a network drive in windows, I need to do the exact same thing.Is there a way? I've honestly gone through about 500 posts explaining different ways and I go none working. Is there a GUI for this?I know there is something called mounting, but I need it to be a drive letter for my program to understand.
View 4 Replies View RelatedUnable to access linux(ubuntu 10.10) share drive on my windows PCIn my office we have few linux (obuntu 10.10) computers and 3 computers running on windows. We have data stored on one of the shared drives of a linux(ubuntu 10.10) system which has samba installed and we are able to access that folder from other linux systems and 1 windows xp system where it asks for user name and password and is able to access the data while in other 2 windows systems (with 1 having xp and 1 having windows 7) we are unable to access the folder because it does not ask for user name and password and it shows an error network drive not accessible as you may not have the permission.
View 3 Replies View RelatedBelow is my samba config. Is there anything that appears obviously wrong?
Why can't I map a drive?
from a windows 7 x64 workstation:
The network path was not found.
What is the procedure for installing Core 10 from the DVD img located on a Windows shared drive?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs Ubuntu like windows and can you download Ubuntu to a flash drive or external hard drive and if so what kind?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have an unused laptop computer with an WindowsXP installation lying around. I decided to use this computer with Ubuntu for the next few months but it is absolutely crucial to preserve the current WindowsXP state somehow. Is there a safe way to "conserve" that very Windows installation as an image so I can recopy it later on? I'd like to clean out the computer completely to install Ubuntu afterwards. After using Ubuntu I want to install the old WindowsXP again as it was before. Is that even possible? Power on and XP boots as before? I mean driver, accounts, passwords etc? What would you recommend?
View 7 Replies View RelatedWindows XP Laptop hard drive is stuck in a hibernated mode. Will not let me access it through Windows, period.
I loaded Ubuntu Live on the suggestion of a coworker in order to retrieve my important files by hooking up the Windows HD through a USB adapter (Inland).
Ubuntu recognizes the 160GB HD, but refuses to mount the drive because "Windows is Hibernated." I Know my disk is hibernated, I need a way to get my important files from the drive...
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I know very little abount Ubuntu so please keep that in mind with your gracious replies.
I am buying a new laptop and of course it comes with Windows 7, I prefer not dual booting and want to keep windows on a separate hard drive for that once in a blue moon I need windows, the hard drive is pretty sweet and I would rather use the new hard drive for Ubuntu and put windows on a smaller slower drive.The laptop obviously dont come with the Windows CD
View 5 Replies View RelatedCan I hook up an external hard drive with windows xp on it to my new laptop which has ubuntu on it through the USB port? I have the cables... forgot in which order should I plug them though... Would save me a lot of work
View 7 Replies View RelatedIs there any way to make windows recognise my second hard drive (Which is fully exclusive to ubuntu) and access it? Iv'e been getting a few BSOD's since installing ubuntu and I'm pretty sure it's because windows keeps trying to access it and failing.
View 2 Replies View Relatedhow I can format my hard drive with Ubuntu on it. I have a disk with windows vista home basic on it and it wont let me install windows until I have formated the hard drive.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am currently running a dual boot with windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10. Is there a way to get rid of the windows 7 partition without redoing the hard drive? I know how to delete the second partition and then do a FixMbr in windows. Is there a way to do that in Ubuntu?
View 2 Replies View RelatedSome time ago I reformatted my hard drive to just run Ubuntu. Now I need to install Windows XP but when I put in the install disk it says it can't find a hard drive. I'm guessing this is because the hard drive is formatted to a Linux-specific ext4/extended/linux-swap set-up. The ext4 partition is 71GB and only uses 13GB. I have 57GB free. I can see all this in Gparted but how do I now split that ext4 up and free some space for ntfs partition for Windows? Indeed is this what I should be doing? Obviously I can't unmount the ext4 bit whilst in Ubuntu.
Ultimately I want to do a complete reformat of the hard disk and just install Windows XP for the time being (I'm handing the laptop in for a hardware service).
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I dual boot with Ubuntu and Windows, and I just about an hour ago upgraded to 9.10 from Jaunty. After I restarted my computer two versions of Ubuntu could be booted, Windows was not on the GRUB menu. I am new to programming, and am completely clueless as to why this happened, and how I can fix this.
View 9 Replies View Relatedsudo ddrescue /dev/sda /home/custom/user/sda_image.img /home/custom/user/logfile
problem is would not mount under /mnt to see if it worked
sudo ddrescue /dev/sda /home/custom/user/sda_image.iso /home/custom/user/logfile
the sda_image.img file is 55gb the other one tht is .iso is 0gb so now trying
dd if=/dev/sda of=/home/custom/usr/sda_image.iso
waiting to see what is going on any body got any advice on how to make the image work?
I have a computer, the one I am on now, with Ubuntu 10.10, it should be completely updated... and I can network with other computers, I can access Windows XP and 7 shared locations on other computers, and I can also get Ubuntu on other computers to access this computer's shared files.What I can't do, however, is share my hardrives that are on this computer, I have tried sharing them in /media/ and etc, but it is not working, apparently you have to mount them in some mystical way.
Another problem is getting Windows machines to access Ubuntu computers on the network - which I believe is a Windows problem, so I can figure that out some other time, but importantly, I want to be able to share my hardrives over the network.
If someone can give me some instructions to mounting and sharing hardrives(internal), and even my DVD-Drives, and portable USB devices, would also be fantastic - since, in Windows you can just right click, "share", and it's done.. It is a very useful thing to have, and I don't want to use Windows on this computer anymore, but I have no choice, really, if I can't share my storage to the other computers.
j have just installed suse linux 11.2 on my pc , the problem i am having is i cant use my windows hard drive . i have downloaded and inatalled NTFS-3G and still it wont work . i can access the windows hard drive and look at what is on it ,ie pics , music ,films.
View 9 Replies View RelatedEDIT : Solved? (Sorry if this is the location for this thread or if someone else already made a thread about this but I tried Googling this ever since it happened with no relevant results IMO so yea.Also sorry if this post sounds trollish / ect. but the fact that I lost the original version of this post due to the website logging me out kinda changed my attitude ATM... Besides, this one is shorter :/)
About a week ago (2/28/10) I went to install Windows 7 (CURSE YOU MICROSOFT!!!) and my damn comp froze during the formating process. So I then went ahead and shut down my comp like an idiot and tried rebooting with the install disk for it to only show the Windows 7 startup animation screen When booting without the disk all I get is some sort of Grub installation with no bootlist Afterwards I went ahead and booted my Fedora 12 LXDE Live-CD and ran Gparted, which tells me that there are 156 hard drives (or Partitions?) on my comp, labeled /dev/sda, /dev/sda100, /dev/sda101 - /dev/sda255 most with just unpartitioned space and every third hard drive / partition containing an EXT4 partition consisting of around 148.32GB of space...
All the file browsers I've tried using (LXDE's pcmanfm, GNOME's Nautilus, and Windows XP's Explorer (yea, makes no sense why if 99.999% of the partitions were Linux partitions...)) do not even seem to acknowledge it's existence, let alone allow access to whatever partitions might have survived the event.
So my Question[s] is this : Can my files be restored? If so then How? If not then how am I supposed to format my Hard drive and get the damn thing working correctly? (since Gparted thinks my single hard drive = 156 hard drives >_>)
Anyhow, theres no rush as I've been running off of Live-CD for the past week or so but in any case it would be nice if I could get my files back or at least have a working hard drive to use if all is lost Trying to get uncertainty out of the equation - Should I pull teh plug?