At 10:58 AM 6/18/01 +0530, Mohana Sundaram wrote:
>Hi all,
>
> I would be grateful if anyone can tell me how to share files between
>linux and windows, if it is possible in first place.
It is possible, but how to do it depends on details you left out.
If you have a dual-boot machine, you can mount FAT16 and FAT32 (vfat)
partitions under Linux. You just need to add the appropriate filesystem
support to the kernel, either by recompiling it or as loadable modules.
If you have a dual-boot machine, you can mount ext2 partitions under at
least some versions of Windows. Since I don't do this myself, I don't have
the details at hand ... but I recall an Australian site from a couple of
yeays ago that distributed a package to do this.
If you have two separate servers, you can use the Samba package under Linux
(it includes both a server and a client) to (a) mount Linux filesystems as
SMB shares on your Windows host and (b) access Windows SMB shares on your
Linux host.
If just a few small files are involved, the easiest thing might be to use a
floppy disk to move them. The only real cost here is that floppies are
limited to DOS-style 8.3 filenames.
Finally, if you were really asking about sharing *files* and not
*filesystems*, then the short answer is this:
text files are easy to share. Just copy them from one
OS to the other. You may need to use the apps
"todos" and "fromdos" (the names on your system
might be a bit different) to change the end-of
-line character between the \r used on DOS/Windows
and the \n used on Linux/Unix.
executables cannot be shared; too much of their content is
calls to the OS itself, which differ fundamentally.
non-text non-executables ... it depends on the details. (For
example, Word Processors like WordPerfect, available
for Linux, have some ability to read and write MS Word
files.)
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