>One of the things about the Mac that caught my >attention was that its new OS X is basically another >Unix variant. Aside from being more stable than >Windows, Im hoping that each machine would be able to >easily mount the others file systems. Has anyone tried >this? I would expect it to be simply a matter of >starting up an NFS service. I know that you can >similarly use SAMBA to serve files to a Windows >client, but I understand that this would be more >limiting (the linux box cant write to the Windows >partitions, etc...).
Yes, a linux client can write to a samba mounted share, regardless of the windows filesystem type. As a matter of fact, one backup measure I take on a weekly basis is to write a copy of .tgz'ed backups to a smb mount that uses the NTFS5 filesystem--primarily so that a copy of the backup files can be burned to CD -- they wouldn't allow me to put the CDRW in the linux server. Of course, since I'm not really sure what you mean by 'the linux box cant write to the Windows partitions, etc...', I could be missing the point. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
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