Thanks to the help I have recieved here I have made it about a year dual booting XP & openSuse 11.0 on my regular desktop. Other than games, I now do most everything using Suse. Thanks. The next step is I have now convinced my wife to let me put Suse on her computer so it can dual boot with XP, I also have a Dell laptop that dual boots XP & 11.1. Is there somewhere I can get info that is written pretty step by step so that they can all hook to my wired network, all use the printer connected to my desktop and share files as necessary? I have been trying to read and learn from the opensuse bible but it is slow to sink in. Also, I can access the XP partitions on my PC through Suse but I cannot modify them and save them to the same location, is this possible?
Thanks for all your help.
@swerdna has all kinds of howto’s here:
Linux HOWTOs and Tutorials: Suse Linux 10.0, 10.1 openSUSE 10.2, 10.3, 11.0, 11.1
To write to your windows ntfs partition you need to edit a file called fstab it’s location is /etc/fstab
Basically if the entry looks something like thei
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST9160827AS_5RF16D1B-part1 /path_to/mount_point ntfs-3g uid=1000,gid=100,umask=0022 0 0
Change the end fro the ntfs-3g
like this:
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST9160827AS_5RF16D1B-part1 /path_to/mount_point ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
HowTo Mount NTFS Filesystem Partition Read Write Access in openSUSE 10, 11
FSTAB - Editing Manually - openSUSE Forums
Might be nice to know that most of these things can be done trough yast as well.
fstab edits can be done using YaST partioner.
For windows to linux file/printer sharing you’ll need samba. Simply set your desktop up as a samba server using yast, think it’s installed by default. (and it’s very self explanatory, doubt you’ll need help if you have ever shared something under windows)
One noticeable difference when compared to a normal windows share is that the shares aren’t publically accessible by default, adding “Guest OK” via the add button takes care of that though.
If you want to share files opensuse to opensuse you can do it via samba as well, or you can use NFS (which for me seems to be a lot faster) just install the yast nfs-server module and it’s done in no time.
Printing opensuse to opensuse is the easiest thing I’ve ever done,
On the server, YaST > configure printers > Share printer
[x] Allow remote access
and add your network card over which it is shared.
Then on the client, YaST > Configure printers > print via network >
[x] Do all your remote printing via one remote CUPS server
(and enter the servers ip)
[edit]
Tip: If you run into problems somewhere along the way try (temporarily) disabling the firewall.
Thank you very much for the replies. I will start working on it as soon as I get home today. Sounds pretty straight forward and swerdna has a lot of info in the how-to’s.
I am not sure in Yast what the proper selection would be, the line of info does not match anything like what is above in caf4926’s post and I do not see a selection to make read/write.
I also am not sure how to access the fsatb so I may save it, I tried first to open in in Kate and save it as a different file name but it said access denied. Just opening it in Conquerer it shows this line:
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3250410AS_6RY5LEQ9-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
If I understand correctly I would change this to:
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3250410AS_6RY5LEQ9-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
Is that right and if so how do I save it?
Thank you for any help either in Yast or editing the fstab.
kdesu kwrite /etc/fstab
or
gnomesu gedit /etc/fstab
use the above in a terminal depending if you are kde or gnome
It will open fstab after you enter your root password
Yes you are correct to edit out the line to read
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3250410AS_6RY5LEQ9-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
save.
reboot required to see changes
Thank you,
I will complete it tonight.
Thank you caf 4926, worked great. I am assuming that if I do that to all my ntfs partitions I will be able to read & write to them. I will read all swerdna’s tutorials and work on the networking. I am also hoping that someday I will get how the command line laguage works, the Suse Bible is not of much help, at least for me. 
Yes, you can do this to all NTFS.
Some sites that might help with the CLI stuff:
Tips for Linux Explorers
Linux Newbie Guide: Shortcuts And Commands
bash commands - Linux MAN Pages