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Hi, I have Windows and SuSE Linux installed in my system. When i login to linux, i cant copy files from linux to windows drives or external hard drives, it ...
  1. 07-15-2007 #1
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    Hi,

    I have Windows and SuSE Linux installed in my system. When i login to linux, i cant copy files from linux to windows drives or external hard drives, it gives me error "you dont have permission to do so". When i try to do it in Super User mode it shows "error can not create respective folder".

    Please guide me..

    Thanks in advance!!!
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    SuSe doesn't support NTFS write access out of box. install ntfs-3g package to enable NTFS write access. SuSe supports read/write access on FAT32 by default.
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    Copy files to external Hard Drive

    thank you..

    my filesystem is NTFS.

    Where can i get the ntfs-3g package for open SuSE 10.1

    Please provide me the link..

    Thank you..


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    SuSe doesn't support NTFS write access out of box. install ntfs-3g package to enable NTFS write access. SuSe supports read/write access on FAT32 by default.
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    Follow instructions from here.
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    Copy files to external Hard Drive

    I went to the link
    download latest fuse source from sourceforge (v2.6.1), extract , they didnt give link to openSuSE, please check the link NTFS-3G: Stable Read/Write NTFS Driver
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    Download this package. its a latest available ntfs-3g source code ( ntfs-3g-1.710 ).
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