Networking Knoppix.

Joe42 · 7 Oct 2006 at 12:13

I'm booting knoppix from a cd onto a laptop with a corrupted windows install to try and retrieve the data. I can't use a usb storage device because i get an error message saying windows hasn't been shut down properly, presumably because it uses some part of windows when doing this.
This is my first time with Linux, so i know very little.
When i plug a network cable in i can access the internet but not our windows home network.

How can i access our network so i can copy the data off the laptop?
Can someone take me through it step by step?

Thanks

Joe42 · 7 Oct 2006 at 13:19

Tried an external usb harddisk, ntfs i presume. I can read it but when i try to write to it says it can't initialise the device because windows wasn't shut down properly (which it wasn't, and can't be).

I want to talk to a windows shared drive or folder so i can copy the data off the laptop to somewhere else.
I could upload it via the internet, which works, but that would take forever.

Joe42 · 8 Oct 2006 at 16:50

Ok, it looks like knoppix has samba built in, i just couldn't find it before.

It can see my windows network. Some folders i can access, some ask for a password and won't open without one.

Those i can get into say access denied when i try to create a folder. When i try to copy some files into them it crashes.

What am i doing wrong?

And also, how do you recover from a crash in linux?
And if i did need to download samba, its not an executable file, so how would i install it?

Thanks

Joe42 · 8 Oct 2006 at 21:08

All these shared windows folders can be accessed and written to by other windows machines but not the knoppix one. I can't find any options except a tick box for 'allow users to modify files' which is ticked.

The crash is everthing locks, it stops responding, can't move the mouse, pressing keys does nothing etc.

I'll see if i can find this package manager thing. The built in samba seems very unstable.

i'm going to try the dvd version now as i hope it might be a little better.

Joe42 · 8 Oct 2006 at 21:45

Got a step further this time. I can see and write to a network folder, but it still crashes when i try to copy some stuff from the harddisk to the network folder.

Joe42 · 8 Oct 2006 at 23:59

Yes i'll try doing it the other way round and sharing the disk in the laptop and accessing it from windows.

This is my first time with linux really, so i'm reluctant to do things the easy way immediately as i want to learn it and become good at it, and while i may be able to solve this problem doing thigns from windows, i'll want to network a linux machine one day.

It is nice to come back to a windows box, and while windows has its issues and i hate it with a passion, at the same time thank god i don't have to use linux everyday. Hopefully i'll think differently when i've tried a few different variations of it but thats my initial impression.

Thanks for all your help and i'll have another crack at it tomorrow.