running Linux at work with Windows apps

[Jerry Feldman]

The question more specifically:
If you are running VMWare and the Linux OS is running and the Windows OS is 
not running, can Linux access any files in the Windows container, or must 
Windows be running. In Win4Lin, since the Windows directories are part of 
the Linux file system, all the Windows files are directly accessable by 
Linux rather than via SMB.
On 11 Nov 2002 at 13:23, pll at lanminds.com wrote:

> 
> In a message dated: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:13:54 EST
> "Jerry Feldman" said:
> 
> >Another advantage of Win4Lin over VMWare is that the Windows directories 
> >are installed within a Linux directory tree, so the files are all available 
> >directly from Linux. 
> >Correct me if I am wrong, but AFAIK, under VMWare, each OS is in its own 
> >container, and cannot share files directly (but can export and import via 
> >NFS and SMB). 
> 
> No, you can directly access everything in VMWare directly from Linux 
> if you want to.  Of course, if the client OS is Windows, life is easier
> if the host OS is Linux, and exports the local file systems via Samba.
> 
> 
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> Seeya,
> Paul
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