Eben King wrote:
> 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?
>
Hi Eban!
I don't know about any messages, I just found it on the menu and clicked
it. It never opened. After a while I did it again, and it didn't again.
Regards,
Pete
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