Darryl, Marcos, Much more to the point is the very recent thread "Beginner- need help in understanding" (another one of those wonderfully non-descriptive subject headers):
<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg01417.html> <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg01418.html> <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg01422.html> <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg01423.html> The last one includes links to software for accessing Ext2 file systems from WIndows. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 10:59 2002-10-01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Quoting Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I don't know if this helps but I have Linux running on 'server' > >> and win98 on 'ppp' (see note below) > >> > >> Samba links the two - ppp accesses a Samba share 'darryl' (my home > directory on server) > >> >From a bash prompt I can eg; > >> > >> # mount //Server/darryl/public_html/current_project > /home/darryl/current_project > >> > >> where /home/darryl/current_project is a folder in my cygwin home > directory. > >> > >> There is a post in the archives which questioned the possibility of > mounting a floppy with ext2fs > >> on cygwin. But I gather this isn't what you are trying to. > >> > >> Note: when I installed cygwin from the internet it changed the name of > my win box from 'station' > >> to 'ppp' and I had to correct my Network Neighbourhood settings > accordingly. > >> I'd like to change it back but haven't got that igured yet. > > > > Well, actually that's a good idea, though I only have one PC :( I wanted > > to mount my local ext2fs partitions on windoze. > > > > regrds, > > m4c. > >Hi, > >You might want to take a look at this link found by searching 'ext2fs' in >the archives of this list. > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-01/msg01611.html > > Regards, Darryl -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
