Unable to view C drive on My Network Places in Win XP Pro

Ask questions regarding Gentoox, Gentoo and Linux in general in these forums and we'll do our best to help you!
Post Reply
MountainSlide
Linux User
Posts: 18
Joined: Mon Aug 11, 2003 12:35 pm
Location: North Carolina, USA

Unable to view C drive on My Network Places in Win XP Pro

Post by MountainSlide »

Why am I unable to view the C drive on My Network Places in Windows XP Professional? It appears to be blank but I can view and manipulate files on the E and F drives. I asked this question on the old forum but got no response.

Thanks ShALLaX for such a fine Xbox Linux distro. Also for the new forum; it looks great and is much faster!
Ron
ShALLaX
Site Admin
Posts: 1973
Joined: Sun Aug 10, 2003 9:25 pm
Location: England
Contact:

Post by ShALLaX »

Sorry your question got wiped (i broke the forum DB oops :D )

What you need to do is run "mount /mnt/fatx/c" then try accessing it with samba - this should work fine. What you can do is edit /etc/fstab and get rid of the ",noauto" on the /mnt/fatx/c entry - after you do this, C drive will be accessible after each reboot :) (The only reason ive set it to noauto is for security reasons, you dont want people wiping your C drive!)
MountainSlide
Linux User
Posts: 18
Joined: Mon Aug 11, 2003 12:35 pm
Location: North Carolina, USA

Thanks, ShALLaX

Post by MountainSlide »

Thanks, ShALLaX for the reply. No problem about the question getting wiped; I didn't mean that in a derogatory manner.

Again, thanks for the advice and keep up the good work! :D

P.S. That worked like a charm!
Ron
Post Reply