Dumb newbie question about Samba

[Ken Moffat]

Harry Giles wrote:

> OK.  I have a laptop with a dual boot XP and Suse 9.2 OS's.  Suse is 
> running ReiserFS.  I need to be able to access my docs on the Suse 
> partition from XP.  (Long story.  Just trust me.)
>
> If I am running XP, can Samba allow me to access my files on the Suse 
> partition, or does Suse Linux have to be up and running?
>

I think there is a windows utility that will allow reading of linux 
filesystems, but can't be more specific. Perhaps a goodle for "read 
linux partition from windows" or something....

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ken