Unable to mount harddrive and see hdd from windows

[kanolsen]

I have 2 sata hdd. One is NTFS formatted (with misc music,data,etc), and one is ext3 formatted (contains the Ubuntu installation).

I can see the ntfs drive from my windows pc, but I can't see the other disk. I get an error message like: "The network folder is connected with another username and passord. To use another username/password unconnect the existing connection" (freely translated). When I try to mount the /media/store folder I get:
kanolsen@Ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda /media/store
mount: /dev/sda already mounted or /media/store busy
An forum mentioned device mapper (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/red-hat-31/devsda1-already-mounted-or-mnt-busy.-sata-sil-3112-494987/), but I don't know anything about it, haven't installed anything special on it.

The Ext3 drive partition I would like to share with windows is /media/store.

I have followed mostly this howto (http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu-home-fileserver-p3

Could anybody point me to the right direction so I can start using the other disk as well?
Thank you in advance
Kanolsen

I am unsure what info to add so here goes what I have found.
Ubuntu Desktop with server installation on top v8.10.
Harddrive 1: NTFS (just misc data) Samsung 1tb.
Harddrive 2: ext3 (ubuntu + room for data). Samsung 1tb.

kanolsen@Ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000b987c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2432 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 2433 121601 957224992+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 2433 2797 2931831 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 2798 121601 954293098+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x31f4aa6f

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 121602 976759808 7 HPFS/NTFS


kanolsen@Ubuntu:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 19G 3.1G 15G 18% /
tmpfs 236M 0 236M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 236M 556K 235M 1% /var/run
varlock 236M 0 236M 0% /var/lock
udev 236M 2.7M 233M 2% /dev
tmpfs 236M 12K 236M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 236M 2.0M 234M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-11-generic/volatile
/dev/sda6 896G 7.9G 843G 1% /home
/dev/sdb1 932G 661G 271G 71% /media/1TBsamsung

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=5de935ac-fa88-4157-83a2-135eedc83f1f / ext3 relatime,erro$
# /dev/sda6
UUID=49b640d9-e3d5-4675-aee6-1834fabe6585 /home ext3 relatime $
# /dev/sda5
UUID=e021ceef-f24b-4408-a1e9-f59c10294214 none swap sw $
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sda /media/store ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/sda /share/incoming ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/1TBsamsung ntfs defaults 0 0

kanolsen@Ubuntu:~$ nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
[linux]
comment = Public Folder
path = media/store
public = yes
guest ok = yes
writable = yes
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
# force user = nobody
# force group = nogroup

[ntfs]
comment = Public Folder
path = media/1TBsamsung
public = yes
guest ok = yes
writable = yes
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
# force user = nobody
# force group = nogroup

[kanolsen]

Since nobody replies, maybe I am not being specific enough, is there any information I should include for you guys to help out?

Thanks in advance for any help.
Kanolsen

[Aubergines]

You seem to be getting yourself into a bit of a mess. There's some things you need to clarify

I understand you have 2 drives:

drive 1: linux is installed, has a folder /media/store which you want to access in windows.

drive 2: windows is installed

Now the questions:

a) are the 2 drives on 2 different machines or on the same machine?
b) is your only goal to access data from /media/store from your windows install?

[kanolsen]

Thank you for helping out :)
I understand I need to clarify.
drive 1: linux is installed, has a folder /media/store which you want to access in windows. Yes, Ubuntu desktop. Just want to be able to mapping /media/store from my windows client.
drive 2: is a disk formatted as ntfs with no windows or linux on it, pure filestorage.

Now the questions:

a) are the 2 drives on 2 different machines or on the same machine? they are both on my ubuntu desktop box with server applications added.
b) is your only goal to access data from /media/store from your windows install? Yes, If I do I would be more than happy.

The NTFS formatted disk is mapping up just fine, but I can't with the linux formatted /media/store (or any other folder in that disk).

Kanolsen

[Aubergines]

There might be a better way but you can try installing this (http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html) on your windows machine to read the linux partitions.

[kanolsen]

Thanks for the tip, will try it tonight, and see if it helps.

Kanolsen

[kanolsen]

Sorry, it didn't work, it seems it only recognises drives physically on the disk. I recognised only the harddriv on the Vista computer and not the drive I have already mapped up from the ubuntu box.

Do you have any other suggestions?

Kanolsen

[kanolsen]

sorry for bumping, but I still have a problem, and somebody sits there with the solution but haven't seen my posting - I hope ;)

Kanolsen