backing up windows on linux - fs and sharing question

From: Eric Peterson (lastname_nospam_at_heritage.nv.gov)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 22:36:50 GMT

I'm setting up an old box with a large hard drive to automatically back up
documents from Windows boxes (mostly XP) in our office. I'll have linux
installed on the older, fairly small hd, and be getting a new hd for large
storage capacity. I am a newbie, but think I understand how to do the
backing up with connections using Samba and backing up with rsync. So that
is not my question. Consider that maybe someday I'll go to a different job,
no one in the office will know how to use the linux system, it may crash,
and then the non-linux users will want to recover data from the hd.

What I am wondering is:

Can I use NTFS on the second hd, mount it to /home, and share it back so
that the windows boxes will see it like they see shared folders on other
windows boxes?

More importantly, would it then be theoretically possible to take the second
hd out, put it in a windows box, and read the files just fine?

Thanks!
-Eric

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