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Ubuntu/Windows home network issue

Asked by Daniel Ramos

Hello all,

I have a large capacity drive (NTFS) connected to our main home computer which contains my entire music/movie/video collection. Rather than eat up space on various laptop drives, I would like to simply access these files across my network on demand. I have been able to access a portion of the drive, but not the relevant folders on the drive which contain my media. In the file explorer in Ubuntu I have a network drive e: and $e:. I have access to e:, but when I use the same username, domain, password information for $e: I am unable to access the drive. I am a relative n00b to Ubuntu, and Linux in general, please take it easy on me.

Thanks,
Dan

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Your NTFS 'drive' is actually a partition.

What version is the WIndows OS?

You need to use the Windows OS to share the folders as well as setup any firewall you may have to allow local access to the files.

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Daniel Ramos (lektrikon) said : 		#2

I am running Windows 7 Home Premium. The drive is not a partition, but an EXTERNAL drive attached to the home computer. I have already set sharing permissions to include FULL read and write for windows machines (no problems there) Also, I don't believe the firewall has anything to do with it, as I am able to access some of the files on the drive, just not the folders containing the largest amount of data, and some other ancillary folders that I am not that interested in accessing regularly.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

yes the drive is a drive and there is a single partition occupying 100% of the disk space. This is a common misconception by Windows usrs as they call partitions drives which is wrong. If you open up disk manager and (theoretically) remove the partition then create 2 partitions on the device, when you connect it Windows will give you a 'd drive' and an 'e drive' (for example) when there is only one physical drive but 2 partitions.

What version of Windows are you running? Have youo shared the folders etc you want to give access to?

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Daniel Ramos (lektrikon) said : 		#4

Ok, fine, I am having trouble with the PARTITION I am trying to access on a windows machine from an ubuntu environment. I am running Windows 7 Home Premium on the desktop in question.

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Daniel Ramos (lektrikon) said : 		#5

Ok, fine, I am having trouble with the PARTITION I am trying to access on a windows machine from an ubuntu environment. I am running Windows 7 Home Premium on the desktop in question. And again, I have shared the entire partition, including full read and write privileges for all users accessing the drive. It is a 2TB drive, does that have anything to do with the the splitting?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

Ok if you run:

smbtree

on the Ubuntu OS, do you see the file shares?

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Daniel Ramos (lektrikon) said : 		#7

Yes. and E$ is listed as default share.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#8

ok cool then press ALT+F2 and run:

smb://hostname/E$

replace 'hostname' with the name of the Windows OS system. You can find this out in Windows by running:

hostname

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