Greetings - I have searched the mailing list archives and my Samba 3 book and have not seen this issue addressed anywhere. My home desktop box has Win98 installed on a 20 GB drive and Centos 4.4 on a 160 GB drive with a Grub menu for selecting which OS to boot. I am wondering if it is theoretically possible to share (read and write) files on the Linux drive when booted to Window, and vice versa, is it possible to share files on the Windows drive when booted to Linux. My Linux drive is set up with LVM. I manage a Linux server with 8 Windows boxes at work using Samba, so am familiar with configuring Samba, but I am wondering if it is possible to do this type of file sharing within a single dual boot box? Thanks. Jeff Boyce www.meridianenv.com
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 3:31 pm, Jeff Boyce wrote:> Greetings - > > I have searched the mailing list archives and my Samba 3 book and have not > seen this issue addressed anywhere. My home desktop box has Win98 > installed on a 20 GB drive and Centos 4.4 on a 160 GB drive with a Grub > menu for selecting which OS to boot. I am wondering if it is theoretically > possible to share (read and write) files on the Linux drive when booted to > Window, and vice versa, is it possible to share files on the Windows drive > when booted to Linux. My Linux drive is set up with LVM. I manage a Linux > server with 8 Windows boxes at work using Samba, so am familiar with > configuring Samba, but I am wondering if it is possible to do this type of > file sharing within a single dual boot box? Thanks. >Linux can read and write FAT32, just mount the Windows partion in linux and store shared files there. There also used to be Windows utilities that could read and write ext2, I imagine there are utilities that will read & write ext3. So, depending on the filesystem you're using on linux, it's possible for you to read and write files on the linux partiion. But I wouldn't recommend it. HTH, Tim -- Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux), Linux 2.6.18-1.2257.fc5 16:05:01 up 3 days, 3:15, 4 users, load average: 0.19, 0.17, 0.14 MP3/OGG archive Total playlength : 9 days, 8 hours, 9 mins 27 seconds "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts" John Wooden -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20070116/55e8742a/attachment.bin
jbaker_signatureSo, it sounds like using Samba is not the way to achieve my
objective. And that I just need to learn about partitioning. So my new
question would be can anyone point me to a good how-to for creating a FAT32
partition within the LVM on my 160 GB drive that I have Linux installed. I am
new to LVM and don't have much of any experience with partitioning. Or,
maybe someone should point me to a better mailing list to ask this question
since I am probably diverging from the Samba topic. Thanks.
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Baker
To: Jeff Boyce
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Dual boot Win98 Centos sharing files
Totally possible.
Use a program like partition magic to create a FAT32 partition (or install a
secondary drive just for data). This is where you will put all the files you
want to share between the OSes. In windows you will obviously be able to browse
to the drive via the drive letter (e: drive, etc). In your fstab in linux,
create a mount point to the drive, so you can access it via linux. I use this
setup between XP Pro and Ubuntu, works great.
Jason Baker
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Saginaw, Michigan 48604 USA
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Jeff Boyce wrote:
Greetings -
I have searched the mailing list archives and my Samba 3 book and have not
seen this issue addressed anywhere. My home desktop box has Win98 installed on
a 20 GB drive and Centos 4.4 on a 160 GB drive with a Grub menu for selecting
which OS to boot. I am wondering if it is theoretically possible to share (read
and write) files on the Linux drive when booted to Window, and vice versa, is it
possible to share files on the Windows drive when booted to Linux. My Linux
drive is set up with LVM. I manage a Linux server with 8 Windows boxes at work
using Samba, so am familiar with configuring Samba, but I am wondering if it is
possible to do this type of file sharing within a single dual boot box? Thanks.
Jeff Boyce
www.meridianenv.com