Dumb newbie question about Samba

[Net Llama!]

On 01/04/2005 05:41 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> 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....
> 

There was something that allowed you to read ext2, but i'd be shocked if 
there was anything that could read reiserFS.  Doesn't the on disk layout 
of resierFS change almost every other kernel?  ;)

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