Re: samba and cygwin

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Author: Bill Warner
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: samba and cygwin
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 02:07 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> 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.


Samba doesn't know what file system it is on. The kernel has to have a
file system driver and the file system has to be mounted in order for
samba to see it. Unless you can find a file system driver for windows
you wont be able to get ext3 or reiser through Samba.
--
Bill Warner <>

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