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How to know if a file has 'access' monitor in linux?

Linux file sharing question?

  • I reinstalled Ubuntu and I am now running version 11.10 I am trying to share an NTFS partition so that it may be accessed by other computers on the network. everything appears to go well with setting up the sharing in Linux I then go to network in windows 7 (not homegroup) and I can see the shared drive but when I try to access it, I get the following message: Windows cannot access \\SERVER\folder Check the spelling of the name. Otherwise, there might be a problem with your network. To try to identify and resolve network problems, click Diagnose. (of course, "diagnose" is useless) this only happens when sharing from the NTFS partition, any shared folder on the main Linux file system works properly. I am certain the problem lies with Linux because prior to reinstalling, I had no difficulties sharing the partition and files within. Does anyone know how to overcome this issue?

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    Linux can read NTFS and access Widows computers without an issue Windows machines will only connect to other Windows machines That's not a bug - Microsoft made it that way To get Windows to "see" non Windows machines, you must install and set up SAMBA as advised above. While I will not go so far as to say it is very easy (because depending on the network, it can get quite complicated) it works very well. It makes the Linux machine appear as a Windows network server, which is what Windows requires. Samba is available as a free install for Ubuntu

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Have you installed Samba server? Its incredibly straightforward and easy to install and will be able to share between Windows and Linux nice and easily.

N

I think you can share the drive via another computer because since you told it is shared you can do it.

Ganesh

Why not try formatting it to FAT32? Its probably the most flexible fs type for cross-platform file sharing. You can always format ity back to NTFS later

Daniel Sweeney

By default, Samba is not installed during a Linux installation, so since you did a reinstall, I suspect you forgot to reinstall Samba.

Adrian

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