Help w/ finding linux distros w/ SAMBA

[JAHGoVeg]

Hello I am trying to salvage some documents from my fathers laptop. i think his drive was partitioned into two seperate drive by ubuntu and now no linux distro sa far has been able to detect the the windows partition. now i was told that SAMBA
http://www.samba.org/

allows linux distros to detect windows partitions i am looking for either
A.) Help setting up SAMBA
B.) A linux distro w samba already on it

links as close to the direct download as possible are appreciated.
I am A Newbie so go easy.
thnx

[Aaflac]

At a Terminal copy/paste the following:

sudo fdisk -l (The last letter is an ‘L’ in lower case)

Post the output, so we can see what you have going on the drive.

[JAHGoVeg]

it is telling me that i am not in the sudoers file and the the incident will be reported

[Aaflac]

What happens if you do:
fdisk -l

[kage]

Aaflac, if sudo is not setup he will need to run "su," enter the root password to log in as root, and then run "fdisk -l." Ubuntu has sudo setup by default, but many Linux distributions do not.

[Aaflac]

Thanks, kage.

Guess su changes the ownership of a login session to root...

[smurfy]

su = switch (or substitute) user. Commonly mistaken for super user. With no arguments added, it defaults to root.
e.g. if i am logged in as user smurfy and type su sean I will then be running any following commands with sean's rights and permissions (which may or may not be elevated from smurfy's).


JAHGoVeg, the reason we are asking you to supply the output of fidsk list is that samba is primarily for network access, not local. If this windows disk is local, you shouldn't need samba to see it. Can you confirm you are booting up the installed Ubuntu on the laptop harddrive? Or are you using a Live CD?

[JAHGoVeg]

never mind well i was able to find my windows partition. turned out windows was in Fat32 and somehow linux was in NTFS. so linux was like, hey wats the fat32 thing? so i uninstalled fedora , reformatted the drive to FAT32 and ext3 for the root, then reinstalled, then finally!!!
linux was like oh, heyy! i'm in FAT32 also! WOW!!! all of a sudden i can understand that format!! hey whats this.... oh... it's windows files, ewww.

sooooo, to sum up, Problem solved!