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Thanks again, that worked. I can now ftp into the box from the win machine. Now I can't see the hdb1. If I mount /dev/hdb1 or mount -t ntfs .... I can no longer ftp into the box. What did I screw up?

When I Ftp I'm seeing the /ramdisk/home/dsl dir of the linux box. Hopefully there's a simple way to see hdb1 also.

Thanks again!
where did you mount it to?  To be honest, I'm not quite sure how ftpd works.  Did you make a folder "/home/dsl/ntfsfolder/" and use "mount /dev/hdb1 /home/dsl/ntfsfolder -t ntfs -ro"
I think the mount command is something like that.  -ro is just to warn dsl it's read only.
Hi
Here's a few things:
1.  On the DSL machine use the menu/system/addusers script to add a new user and password.
2.  When you booted the system should have found the ntfs partition all you should need to do is use the mount app on the right to mount it.
3.  From the M$ machine use ftp ot login to the DSL machine using the new user and password.  
4.  You should now be able to get files from the DSL machine by navigating to the /mnt/hdb1 directory.
5.  I don't think you will be able to put files to the DSL machine.  I don't think the ntfs file system can be mounted read/write on the DSL machine.  In other words I think ntfs is always read-only.  Trying to write to it may lock things up.
6.  I could be wrong about #5.
7.  The new user you added in step one will not be there the next time you boot.

good luck
Quote (hawki @ June 20 2005,13:24)
Hi
Here's a few things:
1.  On the DSL machine use the menu/system/addusers script to add a new user and password.
2.  When you booted the system should have found the ntfs partition all you should need to do is use the mount app on the right to mount it.
3.  From the M$ machine use ftp ot login to the DSL machine using the new user and password.  
4.  You should now be able to get files from the DSL machine by navigating to the /mnt/hdb1 directory.
5.  I don't think you will be able to put files to the DSL machine.  I don't think the ntfs file system can be mounted read/write on the DSL machine.  In other words I think ntfs is always read-only.  Trying to write to it may lock things up.
6.  I could be wrong about #5.
7.  The new user you added in step one will not be there the next time you boot.

good luck

Thanks for the help. That seems to be the path I was on. I could create a user/pw, and ftp to the dsl box. The problem is I have no permmisions after I mount the ntfs drive (hdb1).

Going on the FTp concept I did the reverse. I started a ftp server on my MS machine, then used anyftx from DSL. I can't seem to que a whole lot of folders at a time, but I have slowly been transfering the data. so far about 12G in 12hrs. Slow, but I'm getting access to files other wise lost!

Which lead to another question, maybe no one here can help with. Why would a drive stop working in windows (2k), where it's been for years, but Linux, which has it's own format, can read & transfer the files fine?

original here.