Hello, Currently using a freely available MS Windows file system driver, Ext2Fsd, to communicate (read/write) with external media formatted EXT3 (Linux volume) from within MS Windows. Curious to know if Samba is able to support communication (read/write) with external media formatted EXT3 (Linux volume) from within the MS Windows environment? Looking forward to your reply. Thanks. Best, Matthew Knecht 516-346-7264
> Curious to know if Samba is able to support communication (read/write) with external media formatted EXT3 (Linux volume) from within the MS Windows environment? >I am not sure samba works on a windows machine. I mean you would have to disable the Server service and probably a few more since Samba replaces these. John
If you are thinking about storing the files on a linux ext3 partition, then it is possible, but the?access?will be case sensitive. ________________________________ From: John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> To: "Knecht, Matthew J (AS)" <Matthew.Knecht at ngc.com> Cc: "samba at lists.samba.org" <samba at lists.samba.org>; "samba-technical at lists.samba.org" <samba-technical at lists.samba.org>; "mailman at lists.samba.org" <mailman at lists.samba.org> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:32 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] Linux to Windows Interoperability> Curious to know if Samba is able to support communication (read/write) with external media formatted EXT3 (Linux volume) from within the MS Windows environment? >I am not sure samba works on a windows machine. I mean you would have to disable the Server service and probably a few more since Samba replaces these. John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:? https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Knecht, Matthew J (AS) <Matthew.Knecht at ngc.com> wrote:> Hello, > > Currently using a freely available MS Windows file system driver, Ext2Fsd, to communicate (read/write) with external media formatted EXT3 (Linux volume) from within MS Windows. > > Curious to know if Samba is able to support communication (read/write) with external media formatted EXT3 (Linux volume) from within the MS Windows environment? >that's not really how smb/cifs work. Samba is a network server process that (among other things) translates whatever local filesystems your operating system supports into a network filesystem that OS's that have a smb/cifs client can use. It does not directly support any filesystems itself, that's your OS's job. Even if somehow one were to make Samba work on windows, which is pointless since windows already has a smb/cifs server built in, it would NOT add ext3 support to windows.