On Jan 4, 2005, at 8:18 AM, Bill Warner wrote:
> 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 <wwarner42@cox.net>
What Bill said.
Also, I don't think Samba produces server software for Windows though
MS does, of course, provide CIFS servers. There are several Samba
clients for Windows, but they won't do what you want. It looks like
Craig's second link is the way to go.
--
No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
-Turkish proverb
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