On Thursday 15 March 2007, Patrick Doyle wrote: > On 3/15/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thursday 15 March 2007, Patrick Doyle wrote: > > > On 3/15/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I'm certain you'll get answers from folks with more direct experience > > > in this sort of thing than I, but I'll toss my $.02 just so you can > > > start looking around in the mean time. > > > > > > Given the market share of Windows PC's, your hard drive is probably > > > advertising itself as a Windows share of some sort. There are > > > probably LInux based tools to "browse" the windows network and to > > > attach to your hard drive -- they may even be integrated into > > > Gnome/KDE at this point. > > > > I should have said that I have formatted the larger part of the drive as > > ext3 and a small part as vfat. Maybe I have to go back to usb connection > > and set the partitions as shareable, so that samba can read them. > > I would expect that whatever firmware is in your drive would know > about vfat (and possibly NTFS), but would not know about ext3. Of > course, I could be very pleasantly surprised about that. > Even if that were so, I'd expect the vfat partition to show up. Anne
