Here is the Issue... I have Ubuntu 12.04LTS my room mates all have windows 7 computers, I am tired of Burning CD's for them... How do I share my second HDD (Media Drive), that has all the files that always want copies of with them... In a way that they can access them from their Win7 computers?
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You can format (or create a new partition) on your second drive to NTFS, which can be
read from / written to reasonably well by both Ubuntu and Windows.
Some basic steps to do that can be found here.
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I have already done that... the windows machines can see the drive, but can not see the files on it. – Puzzled Jan 03 '14 at 21:24
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@Puzzled Are you sure it's NTFS? Windows can't read Ubuntu's file systems. – kiri Jan 03 '14 at 21:26
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You could set-up a SAMBA file server on your system and then export the entire partition or whatever folders you choose as a share.
It's as easy as
sudo apt-get install samba
and then editing the configuration file /etc/samba/smb.conf
Check out this simple guide. Also it contains links to more in-depth information.
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