[Samba] Samba in a dual boot environment

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Thu Jan 16 10:54:28 UTC 2025


On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:53:30 +0000
componentscience via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> When configuring Samba in a dual boot Windows/Linux environment,
> should it have a dedicated partition? If so what filesystem should
> the partition be formatted with?

I am not entirely sure what you are asking here, you initially asked
about dual booting Windows and Linux, which by definition would mean
Windows on one partition (formatted NTFS) and Linux on another
partition (formatted ext4, btrfs etc.).

Now when you boot into Windows, you may be able to connect to the Linux
partition, just not by using SMB and the same when you boot into Linux,
you may be able to connect to the Windows partition, just not by SMB.

I think you need to explain just what you are trying to do.

Rowland



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