BL> Yair... I don't have any problem accessing the Linux drive
BL> either. My problem is getting access to the FAT drives through
BL> Samba, but so far, only with Word2000 and WordPad. 

BL> It's weird! Windows explorer can copy, erase, move, drag-drop,
BL> no worries. Delphi7 and CBuilder (32-bit) work fine. What a
BL> pity I want to use Word2000...

DD> I don't get it. How is SAMBA involved if a Windows machine is
DD> accessing its own drives or drives on another Windows machine?
DD> SAMBA shares resources on a Linux machine to Windows machines
DD> on the

 The other machine is a *Linux* machine with "windows" files in
separate drives on the hard disk. Using Samba, I can access those
files quite easily, in fact I am doing it now. I picked up my mail
this morning using the Linux box, and I am replying on
the Windows machine.

 My plan was to have a Linux box with a modem, networked to the
Windows box where I do most of my work... one-way. I can read all the
files on the Linux box, but none of the files *from* to Linux box, and
I don't have to trust Windows for isolation. Samba protects me, Linux
protects me, and the Internet firewall protects me. 

 Unfortunately... I can't pick up BBS mail in Linux. TinyMail is a
DOS program that uses Telix, which won't run in Linux using the DOSEMU
emulator, and the Linux Minicom "equivalent" is as much use as a
clockwork orange.

 Therefore, I either write my *own* Telix equivalent in Linux;
abandon the idea of the BBS (as most of you have done) and use the
Internet exclusively; dual-boot back to DOS in the Linux box to pick
up mail; or add another modem, and use the Windows box to pick up BBS
mail.

 So far, I've been dual-booting Linux. The "windows" FAT drives
already exist and they make a handy backup anyway. I can read, edit,
modify, and save all the files in every program I have tried... except
Word 2000 and WordPad.

Regards,
Bob




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