Running scripts from linux to modify image files on a windows 2000 box

[Joel Hammer]

At work, I am going to have a digital camera tethered to a linux box
via usb.  This linux box will connect directly via an ethernet connection
to a windows 2000 box in another room, which will be the major player in
image processing and storage. I could change this I suppose, and have the
linux box tethered to the camera as the major player, but I am worried
about the slow down due to the cable connection.

I am going to need to run a number of repetitive image editing commands
via scripts on the captured images, after they are sent to the windows
2000 box. For example, they need to be labelled, commented, turned upside
down (Our camera is mounted upside down.), and resized, at least. I
could do all this before they are sent, but the W2K computer is going to
be capturing images, too, and they will need to be edited in a similar
fashion.

I will be using image magick's collection of command line programs to
accomplish this. There are versions of image magick for W2K as well as
for linux.

Now, since I know nothing of scripting in W2K but a lot about scripting in
linux, would it be possible to mount the appropriate W2K directories
on the linux box, and run the editing commands in linux, even though
the files are stored on the W2K box? It sounds quite reasonable, but,
I have never tried this, I don't use windows, and would like to know if
this would in fact be workable.

Thanks,

Joel