On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Pete Theisen wrote:
> Last meeting someone (Eric?) mentioned a shared windows/linux directory.
> How to do this, given my limited ability?
>
> I looked around for a tutorial and they all wanted to use Samba. Samba
> is on my box, but it won't start. Seems to me I should be able to just
> make another partition on the Dark Side, then mount it in Linux?
One filesystem mounted directly and simultaneously by two OSes is a recipe
for corruption.
To mount it directly (but not simultaneously), it should be of a type that
both can read and write. FAT32 is the classic example, although Windows can
read (and write?) ext2 through third-party software, and under kernel 2.6
Linux can read and write NTFS. FAT32 support is still more mature.
To mount it simultaneously (but not directly), you need to use some
networked filesystem, such as Samba/Windows file sharing or NFS. Do any
messages appear in /var/log/messages or /var/log/samba/* when you try to
start Samba?
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