RE: tlug: Mounting my W95 partition

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Jonathan Byrne--3Web wrote:

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> >You need a directory *entry* to mount a partition.  If you make
> >/w95 directory and mount your vfat partion to it, you will find all
> >the directories of your vfat partion under it.  Or, try
> 
> 
> And then people on my office LAN with Windows machines will be able to find
> my publicly accessible VFAT directories under the w95 directory entry?  Or
> will it look to them the same as it does when I'm booting Windows 95, where
> those directories appear directly under the root directory?

well, you tell it to not make them public or browseable, and set a list of
valid users/hosts for the shares, so that only you logged into YOUR w95
box can mount the linux smb shares.

> 
> What about Windows 95 long file names?  Will they be truncated when mounted
> under Linux, or will the directories appear with their current long names?
> 

Linux's smb handles w95's long filenames, and vice-versa (when using smb).

> Thanks,
> 
> Jonathan
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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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