Re: Samba Questions

[servis@purdue.edu]

*- Michael Stone wrote about "Re: Samba Questions"
| Quoting Chris Hoover (choover@home.com):
| > as a vfat drive.  Can samba serve the drive
| > to win95 if it is an ext2 partition?  Also are there any limitations or
| > problems doing this (i.e. read only)?
| 
| Samba expects your drive to be ext2 rather than vfat.
| 

I have a dual boot Linux/Win95 (99% of time in Linux) and a single boot
Win95 machine.  I have samba on the Linux machine serving the vfat
partitions using share level access. I have no problems.  You just have
to mount the vfat partions with the permission of the guest account
that is specified in smb.conf, I use the nobody/nogroup account.  I
use autofs for this and it works great.

YMMV, 

-- 
Brian 
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