On Tuesday 21 December 2004 01:04, Shawn wrote: > Not sure if it's quite what you're looking for, but you can use SAMBA to > make a Linux partition/directory available to Windows, with read/write > access.... Then you just use Windows Explorer to view the files. > > This might be a little tougher if the Linux partition is on the same drive > that is running Windows. You would use Samba on a remote Linux server > (i.e. not the same computer). > > VMWare uses SAMBA to talk between the OS's. For example, when I'm running > my Windows virtual PC, it uses samba to talk to my Linux folder - which is > a configurable setting. >
A bit of clarification here wrt the last paragraph.... VMWare would be an application running on the Linux workstation. During the install, it will also install it's own version of the Samba server (if desired), and will start this up when you start VMWare. Then, the Windows virtual PC talks to this server. In the case of a non-virtual instance of windows, this can't happen, so you cannot run Samba on the same box, while Windows is running. But there's nothing stopping Windows from talking to another computer running Samba. Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
