Other Help Topics :: Network & NTFS help needed

I need help, I used DSL about a year ago to recover a notebook HD via my network. I thought I made a cheat sheet of what I did, of course I can't find it now and have another HD that I can't access from windows anymore, but I was able to fumble around enough with DSl to see there are files on the HD still.

How can I run DSL to mount the ntfs drive to be accessed by another win machine so I can try to copy some files over?
The more descriptive the better as it's been a long time since I've used linux.

Thanks

I have a CD bootable version of DSL working, the machine has a linux compatible NIC card as I was able to sure the web when I was playing with it.

Bryan

I've fumbled around a bit and can mount the HD. I can see files in emnfl(?) I somehow set an ip number and can ping it from my other win machines. I just can't remember what I did to copy the files from linux boot to the windows box. I ran some program, maybe something as simple as a FTP, but just can't remember.

Any help on how to copy would be great.

Bryan

I'm away from my DSL comp. so I'm not quite sure on the exact things, but you can setup an ftp pretty simply with DSL. Open a terminal and type "sudo passwd dsl" and follow the instructions to change (set) the pass of the DSL user account. Then from your right click menu (i think it's in the system subheading) choose Start ftpd. Open up an IE window on the windows box and type in ftp://dsl.machine.ip.here . With any luck the /home/dsl folder should show up after you give it your username "DSL" and pass "whatever you set".

Thank you, thank you... I'm getting somewhere now, except when I do the "sudo passwd dsl" I type in a password, but then it says error creating file. I'm running DSL from CD, does that make a difference? I tried the loadtoram option and get the same problem. Is there a gerneric user/password? My dsl box shows the linux box name as "box", does this mean anything? Is that a user account?

Thanks for the help, I'm feeling more confident every minute I'm going to get this figured out!

Ok. I had that problem too early on. Try running /etc/init.d/ssh_addusers as user root. This will ensure that all the password related files are writeable (thanks Roberts http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....sword). Once you do that try mounting the ntfs readonly somewhere inside your home/dsl and i think it should show up in the ftp.

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