Hello, Under WinNT (and Win98) it's possible to compress a network drive. For example, you can copy an entire CD-ROM to a share and then compress this share. Afterwards you can still access the share (you don't see that it has been compressed). Off course you wouldn't do this with important data. My question is: Can you also compress Samba-shares? Does anybody know something on this subject? Thanks in advance, Werner Maes KULeuven
[werner maes]> My question is: > Can you also compress Samba-shares? > Does anybody know something on this subject?Not directly. Samba has nothing to do with this. If the underlying operating system can compress a filesystem, then there you go. AIX JFS, for example, can. So can Linux ext2fs, with the e2compr patch. I don't know what other Unices can do. Peter