sharing disk space between W2K and Linux?

Sharpe, Richard rsharpe at amherst1.com
Tue Apr 22 11:47:12 EDT 2003


That is the solution I also used and are using.

Rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: joe kagenski [mailto:joe at kagenski.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 11:38 AM
> To: gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
> Subject: Re: sharing disk space between W2K and Linux?
> 
> 
> 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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