Re: tlug: VFAT/NTFS on Linux

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, joem wrote:

> 
> Jonathan,
> 
> Jonathan> Can a FAT-16 file system on a Windows 95 machine be
> Jonathan> mounted as an NFS by Linux?  I'm also planning on
> Jonathan> migrating the Windows box to NT Workstation; can Linux
> Jonathan> mount an NTFS file system as NFS? What about FAT-32?
> 
> The easiest way to do this for either Win95 or NT is to have
> linux on the machine in question, and mount the Win95 or NT
> partition on the linux partition.  Then you can NFS mount the
> linux partition on any other unix box.  This works well for 
> system administration. 
> 
> NTFS is at this point "read-only", but you can read/write to
> VFAT or FAT-16.
>  

Or just have the Win95/NT machine 'share' the drive, and use smbmount on
the Linux machine.  You can even re-export the smbmounted share by NFS if
you want to.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
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