>> editor i have to use to open PDF files in Linux
# rpm -qa | grep -i xpdf
Normally "xpdf" is installed: Xpdf is an X Window System based viewer for PDF files. Xpdf is a small and efficient program which uses standard X fonts.
To access windows files you use the samba tool suite.
smbmount to mount the shared windows partition.
openoffice tools permit limited pdf editing, they ship with the linux distro if I've guessed correctly.
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Other replies assume that you are accessing files on a different system that is booted to XP. I sounds like you are actually trying to get at a partition on a local disk that has a filesystem that was created by XP. The default for XP is the NTFS file system. Most linux distributions have support for mounting NTFS file systems read-only. You can list the partitions on a system using /proc/partitions- "cat /proc/partitions". You can get more information about what each partition is using parted- "sudo parted /dev/sda print". The device name you pass to parted will correspond the devices reported by /proc/partitions. You can mount an NTFS partition with a command like "mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt". You may also want to use uid and gid options to make the files and directories of the mounted filesystem readable by non-root users. If you really want write access to the NTFS file system, you could investigate the NTFS-3G driver. It is new and very unlikely to be included in the standard kernel for current distributions. See http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ for more information on how to get it into your kernel and use it. Another option for having a filesystem writable by both XP and linux is to format a partition with a FAT32 file system for exchanging data. That will have less flexibility for file permissions. But it will be easily read and written by both operating systems.
hai if u want to access files shared on windows then you can use samba client. go through Computer network then select windows or any system through network
The suggestions that have been pasted need to be used depending on whether you are dual booting or accessing files over the network.
I have installed Linux 9.1 on my PC with XP windows OS. I think you have done a dual-boot.
In this situation, it is easy to mount & access the files on the Windows partition if the file system is FAT/FAT32. If it is NTFS, then you will need the ntfs-3g component. Whether it is available for your version of Linux, check in the package manager or install from the web site directly.
The /etc/fstab file contains all the mount points that will be loaded when Linux starts. For easy access, create directory(ies) under the /mnt or /media directories to mount the other partitions.
For e.g. if I have a Windows partition called "WINDOWS", I will create a directory called windows under /mnt (/mnt/windows). Then mount it manually using the mount command. If it works fine, move the entry to the /etc/fstab file.
The commands in brief:
fdisk -l (to see partition information). mkdir /mnt/windows (create windows directory for mounting)
There are many PDF viewers for Linux. Evince, XPDF, Adobe reader. You have PDF viewer specific for Gnome desktop (Evince), KDE (xpdf). These are the open-source options compared to Adobe Reader.
