[Samba] Samba in a dual boot environment
Rowland Penny
rpenny at samba.org
Thu Jan 16 15:06:47 UTC 2025
On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:26:24 +0000
justin.noor at componentscience.xyz wrote:
> 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.
That sounds like you want to have Windows on one partition and Linux on
another and be able to boot into into one or the other and access the
other OS's partion, that is not sharing.
> So the Samba share would be
> accessible regardless of which OS is booted into.
But what Samba share ?
>
> 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?
To be classed as a share, you are going to have to have another Linux
computer that holds the share, then you can access it from whatever OS
you have booted the other computer into.
I cannot recommend you dual boot into one OS and access the other OS
partition, you will be able to do this, but each partion will formatted
in the OS native filesystem (NTFS for Windows, ext4,btrfs etc for
Linux) and each has their own incompatible methods of setting the
ownership and access permissions.
Rowland
PS, please do not 'CC' me, please just reply to the list.
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