Is this possible? --- networking related.

[fow99]

Hi all,

I don't think this is possible myself. I just want to confirm it with you guys:

Say I have two computer, both dual booting. I want to use Linux on machine A and the other one has to be running Windows (2000) on machine B ( they are networked). Is it possible for me to have access to the Linux files on machine B? Sorta NFS?

[syn]

I believe it is possible to access nfs mounted filesystems from win2k do a search on google, and if all else fails you could use samba or ftp.

[syn]

actually it would be easier to set up samba on the linux side and hit it that way from your win2k box, the stuff im looking at from google is saying nfs servers cost lotsa $$$
good luck to you though, theres lots of papers about on how to set up samba. :-)

[ph34r]

IE5 and up can map a drive to a ftp site, so you could do it via ftp. Or, use samba.

[jcrowe]

I am doing exactly what you want by using samba. I used webmin to configure it.(fyi)

jcrowe

[scanez]

No no no, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't your question "can I access the linux partition on machine B (running Win2k at the time) from machine A (running linux at the time)?" If that was your quesiton, neither samba nor nfs will work because they still wouldn't let you access the linux parition from windows on machine B (I don't think so at least). You'll need a program that lets windows read ext2 partitions, I can't recall the name but I think there have been a few posts about that lately, check it out. Then once you have that, then yes you can use samba to connect to the Win2k on machine A (with the ext2 reading program running) from linux on machine B.

That's how I understood the question at least :)
SC

[Keyser Soze]

kinda hard to understand what you are asking, but since you say NFS way, I will tell you that you will have to use a third party utility. There is one you can use to mount nfs partitions on your 2k box that is free, but has a 1 hour limit(plenty of time) before it has to be restarted. Do a google search. If you mean for windows to read a linux partition on a running windows box(both on same system) then you will also have to use a utility which has been covered extensively on this site, do a search.

[deadlock]

Unless I'm very much mistaken, I think he wants to do both! CA is running Linux and CB is running Win2k. CB also has a Linux installation and he needs to access the Linux partition on CB from CA. So, in order to do this, he'd need to be able to mount/otherwise access his Linux partition from within Win2k on CB and then share this out as a network drive, using either Samba or NFS (preferrably NFS, I presume - can Samba handle Linux' extra file modes ?)

How you go about doing this, I don't know - I'm at a loss to explain why you'd want to!

[Magnus_Lei]

Hmmmmm..

[crokett]

Originally posted by fow99:
<STRONG>Hi all,

I don't think this is possible myself. I just want to confirm it with you guys:

Say I have two computer, both dual booting. I want to use Linux on machine A and the other one has to be running Windows (2000) on machine B ( they are networked). Is it possible for me to have access to the Linux files on machine B? Sorta NFS?</STRONG>

Alrighty then. Machine A is running Linux, Machine B has to be running Win2k So you want to be able to have machine A running Linux, Machine B running W2k and Machine A access an ext2 filesystem on machine B? No. Not normally. Win2k can't read ext2 filesystems. However I found this link (http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm) that gives you read access only to the ext2 filesystem on machine B from Win2k. From there you can use NFS (which is expensive) to export the drives to Linux. You can also just use the existing samba client on machine A to access Windows shares on machine B. The trick will be to get Machine B to read ext2 from Win2k.

[ 06 December 2001: Message edited by: crokett ]

[Keyser Soze]

Reminds me of some test questions I had from a professor who's english wasn't quite ready for prime time, the question can be interpereted so many ways.... Good luck.