[hblug] File Sharing & File Read/Write

[Rene Bartosh]

On 18/08/06, Perry Spiller <p.spiller at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>
>  Earlier, Rene commented:
>
>  If you want to share files between either win2k or winxp and linux
>  installed on the same machine, you will need to have the windows root
>  partition (thats C: in windows-speak) as a fat32 drive. However as
>  this is not recommended for security and performance, the best
>  compromise is to have C: as an NTFS partition (this is the default
>  IIRC) and have a seperate fat32 partition to keep files on that you
>  wish to access from both OSes.
>
>  If however you have a windows machine and a linux machine on a
>  network, file systems don't matter at all because you just use samba
>  to share files/printers (normal windows file sharing - SMB or CIFS).
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>  Rene
>
>  Am I missing something, here? Or is it the context of your reply
>  that's giving me a skewed impression. To explain . . . .
>
>  On my wife's Linux PC are 2 HDDs. One is FAT32 and the
>  other is whatever Xandros decided upon. Reiser [?] xxxxx,
>  as I recall.
>
>  Now it was set up like that so that her home directory was on
>  the FAT32 drive, so that windows machines on the network could
>  read AND write to that drive and she could do the same.

That sounds very unusual, as fat32 dosn't have full linux
file/directory permission. I image things like ssh-keys and gpg would
not run on your wifes machine.

With regard to sharing files over the network, as long as the host OS
can read/write to it the file system dosn't matter, IE a windows box
can share NTFS to linux over the network and a linux box can share
reiser, ext3, XFS or whatever you please to windows machines over the
network.

FAt32 is only needed if you are dual-booting and the machine and wish
to share files on the same HDD in the same machine. However using
fat32 for storing anything other than user-created files (IE your
documents and media etc) is not recommended, as most software you will
run on linux stores its configuration in your home directory and some
will bork if the group or other read/write/execute permissions are not
set exactly the way it likes (ala my example of ssh keys and gpg
previously).

If you are not sure exactly have your wifes machine is setup please
feel free to paste us the output of the mount command.

Regards,

Rene

>  I recall the reason was that most any other arrangement of file
>  systems would not allow R&W, but would allow R/O as well as
>  R&W, depending on which PC was the originator of the file
>  access or write request.
>
>  Have I got lost in the techno-talk, somewhere?
>
>  Perry
>
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