sharing disk space between W2K and Linux?

joe kagenski joe at kagenski.net
Tue Apr 22 11:38:23 EDT 2003


At 11:29 AM 04/22/2003 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:

>As most of you are aware, the Linux NTFS read support is usable but the
>write support is experimental at best.
>My suggestion is to use VMWARE. Then the Linux system could use SMBFS
>assuming the W2K system exports it as a share.
>
>Not an entirely elegant or free solution, but it works.

similarly, I have typically placed this shared space on a 2nd system 
(usually an old one)
allowing both *nix and win systems to have access to the data.

joe 





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