Re: Will Suse be it?

From: filesiteguy (filesiteguy_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:21:51 -0800

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 11:17:30 -0600, someone posing as Drake chisled in the
wall:

>> Do I understand you correctly? You have NTFS partitions on a server that
>> you want to share with (Linux) machines over the network?
>
> Sorry, I should have been clearer. Actually (and this is for my first foray
> into Linux), my intentions are to build a *Linux* file server from which I
> can read and write to XP NTFS & FAT 32 network shares. I also would like to
> read and write from the XP machines to the Linux server. Is this possible
> (forgive my ignorance)?

Dovetailing on hougi's response...

First off, a "server" by default doesn't "write" to a workstation. At least
in my 12 years of LAN experience, I've never seen this happen by intention.
As such, you just need to ensure that the server's shares can be seen by
the workstation. This is old hat, as we're now all using TCP and not trying
to interoperate between Arcnet, IPX, TCP, NetBeui...well, you get my drift.

You have - say - three machines. Here's how they'd interoperate (remember
AFAIK, there's no XP server out there)...

FS1 (Linux - reiser/ext2...) /pub/share1 - shared using Samba to the
network.

WS1 (WinXP Pro/Home - NTFS) maps drive x:\ to FS1\share1 || shares
c:\projects as projects

WS2 (Linux - reiser/ext2...) maps mnt/fs1 to the fileserver and mnt/ws1 to
the projects share. Can read/write both.

This is a basic example, but shows that your choice of filesystem makes no
difference when sharing over the network. 

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