Re: Seeking advice on how to make eCs and Win XP to see each other
- From: Colin Campbell <cmcampb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 19:56:23 -0800
MARK44 wrote:
I really can't help much with the cross-machine part of this question, but I believe one of your issues is how you have the two machines set up in terms of file systems.Hi, folks!
I'm a clueless newbie reagarding networking issues.
I has been using eComStation 1.1 and Windows XP SP2 for a while now, each one in its own machine. Both of them have its own modem and I use dial-up to connect to my ISP without any problems. Both machines have NICs and I bought a crossover cable and happily connected them, but from that point onwards I don't have the slightest idea on how to configure neither machine to see each other to share files between the two. Could anybody give me some advice on how to start? Please keep in mind the first statement of this posting!
Thank you in advance!
Typically, your WinXP will be on an NTFS partition, although it could be on a FAT32 partition. I believe that eCS requires that the OS be installed on an HPFS partition (or volume). Windoze in general long ago dropped support for the HPFS file system. OS/2 (and eCS) never had support for NTFS file systems.
Someone has written a file system for OS/2 / eCS that can read NTFS file systems; it is easy enough to find and install, and it works, in my experience. However, you cannot write files from OS/2 / eCS to the NTFS file system, so this is a sort of one-way pipe. There is also a driver for the FAT file system and the FAT32 file system, and these are read / write capable.
I think that WinXP only supports FAT32 natively, but there may be third party drivers for FAT out there in MicroSoft land (and maybe an HPFS driver, too, for all I know).
What this boils down to is that to share data bidirectionally between the two operating systems, it is useful to have a partition (or volume) formatted as FAT32. You can use it as a standard place to store data from both systems, or you can just copy files to it for the express purpose of sharing them from one to the other.
Your WinXP PC was probably sent to you with the entire hard drive defined as a single partition, where WinXP and all your applications and data get stored. If so, you will need to either reduce this partition in order to get some free space, or buy a second hard drive and create a new partition there which you define as FAT32.
Your eCS PC may be in the same state; if so, the solution to creating a FAT32 volume is the same.
If you can already "see" one PC from the other with your connection, you may be able to get by with a FAT32 partition or volume on one or the other PC, not both. Defining space on both might be more elegant and useful, though, since you could read and write to the local FAT32 partition without being connected to the other PC.
I would be careful, too, about letting Windoze "see" very much on your eCS machine, since Windoze is much more of a hacker target, and you might get parts of your eCS PC trashed by a virus, etc. Security settings may need to be understood and set up to minimize this danger.
I have an older PC with Win2K Pro and eCS installed on it, and a newer one with WinXP Home and eCS installed. I share data using a FAT partition on the older PC, and using FAT32 on the newer one. I may have to try to connect these machines in order to move things like e-mail files to the newer PC. So, I'll be watching this thread to see how you come out!
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