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How can you alter, write and erase files on a Windows XP from a Linux box?

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14-Oct-2005, 01:35 AM #1
Cool How can you alter, write and erase files on a Windows XP from a Linux box?
Can anybody teach me how to alter, delete, write files on a windows box from a linux box since everytime I will create a new folder or delete files or edit them, I usually end up with a message: Access denied...

Account used on the Windows XP side is Administrator and on Redhat9 Linux is root.
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14-Oct-2005, 02:30 AM #2
There are no good Linux NTFS file system drivers. Though you can read files easily from NTFS partitions, you can't write to them (and erasing is a writing process). Some of the most recent Linux drivers attempt to write to NTFS and have some success, but the drivers are not perfected and you risk corrupting the drive to the point where it is irrecoverable.

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/
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14-Oct-2005, 05:59 AM #3
Capture-ntfs is the latest attempt ( that I know of) for gaining write access to ntfs via Linux. I have heard that if you run service pack2 you need to roll that back to spk1 for capture-ntfs to work properly.
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Captive works fine with SP2, you just need to help it find a certain file
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6261
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Captive works fine with SP2, you just need to help it find a certain file
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6261
Thanks for the info, brendandonhu.
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Fedora Core 4
I just installed Fedroa Core 4 [in server mode with all the goodies], and I am able to make a folder to a Windows Share and copy files back and forth.

Since I am a newbe to Linux I am not sure if this feature is new to Fedora Core 4.
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I just installed Fedroa Core 4 [in server mode with all the goodies], and I am able to make a folder to a Windows Share and copy files back and forth.

Since I am a newbe to Linux I am not sure if this feature is new to Fedora Core 4.
On a single workstation or networked?
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15-Oct-2005, 05:09 PM #9
It's networked via a wireless router and my wireless notebook with the FC4 on it is seeing a share on my WindowsXP home computer.
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I just installed Fedroa Core 4 [in server mode with all the goodies], and I am able to make a folder to a Windows Share and copy files back and forth.

Since I am a newbe to Linux I am not sure if this feature is new to Fedora Core 4.
Samba would be the way to go. You can easily join a linux box to a window workgroup and read and write files back and forth with samba.
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15-Oct-2005, 08:35 PM #11
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It's networked via a wireless router and my wireless notebook with the FC4 on it is seeing a share on my WindowsXP home computer.
There's no problem accessing the NTFS files over a network---the native operating system is still providing the access. The problem arises when a non-native operating system needs to have drivers to access the files on a local disk.
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