Re: samba and cygwin

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Author: Craig White
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: samba and cygwin
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 02:07 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> moin, moin,
>
> I believe samba works on m$ either natively or via cygwin.
>
> Can it read ext3 and reiser filesystems when running under m$ or is it
> dependent on some kernel module that m$ for obvious reasons doesn't want
> to exist?
>
> I was talking to someone today about his company supporting duel-boot
> systems and thought of a way to maybe fix the incompatable filesystem
> issues. The common filesystem between linux and m$ is fat32, which sucks a
> lot.
>
> Then it occured to me that maybe the m$ box could run samba server and
> export an ext3 or reiser partition as a share back to itself. This depends
> on samba being able to read ext3 and/or reiserfs w/o help from a kernel
> module and that m$ can mount local smb shares.
>
> I kinda doubt the latter, but maybe we can come up with a way to make it
> happen if we can get the former working.

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Not sure what you are trying to do but these things may be the ticket...

<http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/>

<http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm>

Craig

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