Hey guys,

Im working on recovering files from a friend's laptop that WinXP crapped out on, and decided to try out a Knoppix CD for the first time . I've connected the laptop to my home network to send files to my SuSE 10.0 machine (my current desktop), so i can save them here and reformat the laptop's NTFS drive. Samba is fully enabled, and I'm currently able to share files between both SuSE 10.0 and Knoppix 5.0.1 machines, but I can only share files or directories that reside within my /home directory on the Knoppix machine.

Theres about 8.5gb worth of stuff that im attempting to recover, and the task is going extremely slow since i have to copy a directory from the /media/hda1 hdd into the /home directory, and share from there...its extremely slow since it seems that any folder larger than 200mb lags extremely hard when copying over and eventually freezes, crashing the entire laptop.

Ideally, id really want to just share the entire /media/hda1 directory, so i can just access it all from my SuSE machine and save everything that i want here, rather than having to manipulate the files on the laptop, wait for the directories to be copied into /home, hope nothing freezes, then finally sharing the directory. Is there any possible settings to change to allow me to share directories that don't reside within my /home directory?

Thanks in advance!!