[Samba] Samba in a dual boot environment
justin.noor at componentscience.xyz
justin.noor at componentscience.xyz
Thu Jan 16 14:26:24 UTC 2025
Maybe I should've asked that in a separate question but the objective remains the same. I'd like to use Samba in a dual boot environment to share files between Linux and Windows. So the Samba share would be accessible regardless of which OS is booted into.
But where does the Samba server reside? On the Windows partition? On the Linux partition? Or on a separate partition? So when Windows or Linux boots, how does it mount the Samba share to its filesystem?
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On Thursday, January 16th, 2025 at 10:54 AM, Rowland Penny via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 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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