running Linux at work with Windows apps

[Scott Prive]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Feldman [mailto:gaf at blu.org]
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 2:03 PM
> To: Greater NH Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: running Linux at work with Windows apps 
> 
> 
> 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 
> accessible by 
> Linux rather than via SMB.

I'll interpret the question as: "Can the Linux (host) OS access files of the Windows (client) OS, even when the client is not running?"

Yes and no.


1) YEs: Your expressed concern is `all the Windows files are directly accessible by Linux'. Exporting a Linux share via SMB satisfies this requirement. From Windows/vmware, just save your documents to "\\linux\mystuff\foobar.ext" and it's available in Linux "directly".

You also mention "rather than via SMB.", meaning you don't want to use SMB (or considered a SMB configuration other than when I suggest). I'm not sure I understand why. Perhaps I misunderstand your question. 


2) Yes #2: IF you use disk partitions with VMWare. Just mount the partition under Linux and unmount it before again running the client OS. 


3) If you use only disk images, then no (unless there's a mount tool for vmware images, which there may be I don't know..).


-Scott



> 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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> > Paul
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