I am about to partition a drive for a new Linux server for the first time. It will be connected to two MS Window 2000 machines. However Windows 2000 does not read FAT32 only FAT16 and NTFS how does Linux work around this? If I use Fat 16 I will need to make a hugh amount of patitions?

Thanks,


Steve

how Windows 2000 dose not read FAT32 ?

would you explain more .

Originally posted by Aljaber
how Windows 2000 dose not read FAT32 ?

would you explain more .

Windows 2000 is based on NT technology (which can not read information in FAT 32). You can not install NT or Windows 2000 in a FAT 32 partition.

Originally posted by Steve D
Windows 2000 is based on NT technology (which can not read information in FAT 32). You can not install NT or Windows 2000 in a FAT 32 partition.

if this is your only problem so check this (http://windows-2000.20m.com/) and this (http://biorobots.cwru.edu/server/howto/buildcomp/Win2K/)

Originally posted by Steve D
I am about to partition a drive for a new Linux server for the first time


i guess this the first time to you to install windows2000 either
windows2000 installs on FAT,FAT32,and NTFS .
you might mean windows NT

Steve,
I think theres a misconception here. You said ur going to install a new Linux machine for the first time which is pretty well.

You also said it will be connected to two other machines running MS Win2K which is good also uptill now.

First MS Wind2K Pro/Srv r able to deal with all FAT, FAT32, and NTFS partitions except that ull miss some functionality if u dnt install it on an NTFS partition.

Second Linux has nothing to do with the partition type on a REMOTE machine it is completely transparent to it; it is the other computer OS problem to deal with it.

You have to worry about this issue if you r going to make one of ur partitions on the Linux machine an MS one; then I can tell u that has well support for FAT16/32 both for reading and writing; while NTFS has excellent support for reading and still-an-experimental support for writing.

Salamo 3alaikom,

sattia: kalamak dorrar.

Salam.

Originally posted by sattia
Steve,
I think theres a misconception here. You said ur going to install a new Linux machine for the first time which is pretty well.

You also said it will be connected to two other machines running MS Win2K which is good also uptill now.

First MS Wind2K Pro/Srv r able to deal with all FAT, FAT32, and NTFS partitions except that ull miss some functionality if u dnt install it on an NTFS partition.

Second Linux has nothing to do with the partition type on a REMOTE machine it is completely transparent to it; it is the other computer OS problem to deal with it.

You have to worry about this issue if you r going to make one of ur partitions on the Linux machine an MS one; then I can tell u that has well support for FAT16/32 both for reading and writing; while NTFS has excellent support for reading and still-an-experimental support for writing.

This is the deal, I will have a Linux machine running a Java Application that we developed. This box will have a FAT32 20GB partition for the Linux OS, MySQL (the database) and our Java Application. On that same drive will be a 60GB FAT32 partition that will store files that will need to be accessible to two Windows 2000 machines. The Windows 2000 machines will need to run the Linux Application via shortcut on there desktops.

well
As I told u; u dnt need a FAT32 partition on Linux in order to be able to share files on them to Windows machines

Install Linux on one of its native filesystems; for ur case I recommend a ReiserFS 3.6; also u can check this from MySQL docs @ http://www.mysql.com

For storing ur files also a native partition will do the job

Now remains the Windows part; which u want to share ur Java homebrew app on the Linux machine to other Windows machines. This can be done using SAMBA server on ur Linux box @ http://www.samba.org

Originally posted by sattia
well
As I told u; u dnt need a FAT32 partition on Linux in order to be able to share files on them to Windows machines

Install Linux on one of its native filesystems; for ur case I recommend a ReiserFS 3.6; also u can check this from MySQL docs @ http://www.mysql.com

For storing ur files also a native partition will do the job

Now remains the Windows part; which u want to share ur Java homebrew app on the Linux machine to other Windows machines. This can be done using SAMBA server on ur Linux box @ http://www.samba.org

Thanks, this is great info

Steve D

ok ... I'm not sure I got the problem correctly... but if you want to read shared drives on remote Windows machines, all you need the SMB client (Samba client) .... here is how you do it (if thi sis not what you want to do, please ignore, hopefully someone else will benifit from it :)):

1-Creat a mount point (the mount point name is yours, name it whatever you want)

$mkdir /mnt/remote

2- On the remote Windows machines, create shared folderes or drives of teh folders and drives you want to share, if memory serves me, right click on folder or drive, then go to sharing and do the necessory stuff, take note of the share name, as you need it on teh Linux box.

3- On the Linux box, assuming you have SAMBA installed (the client, not the server, unless you want to share files from your Linux, do the following:

$mount -t smbfs //ip-of-remote-windows-machine/share-name /mnt/remote

you'll have to enter a password at the prompt later, if you didn't set a password for the Windows share, just hit enter.


hope this helps someone :)


Nabil K. Suleiman.