knoppix and windows shares

[tsitras]

i got my system up and running. i installed knoppix 3.3. now i would like to share all of /dev/hdb1, and make it readable from windows xp professional computers in the workgroup MSHOME. could someone tell me how is that feasible with knoppix? i do not want any password protection. only read access for the users to my /dev/hdb1.

[user unknown]

I guess you need to install samba for that issue.

Perhaps setting up a ftp-server is an alternative?

[tsitras]

ok and how do i do the whole process?

[user unknown]

In most cases there are several ftp-server preinstalled.

Security is the most important issue here. But if it's not an issue for you, you can start looking in

(corrected:)
/etc/inetd.conf

If there is a line, starting:

#ftp stream tcp nowait root ...

uncomment it.
Now look if inetd is already running:

ps ax | grep inetd

If not, start it in runlevel 4 (multiuser + network).
read:

man in.ftpd

carefully - there is a paragraph describing the 'chroot' command, so make the home of ftp /mnt/hdb1 (or mount hdb1 to /home/ftp and make that the home of ftp).

When problems occur, revisit here :)

[heldersepu]

ok and how do i do the whole process?

Hey People try asking "Google" something like "networking knoppix linux"

First link --> http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/FaqSambaQuick

...and the light was made!

[user unknown]

sorry! In my last post, I accidentially told, you start the ftp-daemon in /etc/fstab.

That is - shortly spoken - 01000010011101010110110001101100011100110110100001 10100101110100 !

Of course it is /etc/inetd.conf.

I corrected the post, to prevent mistakes.
Sorry again.