[Samba] Samba in a dual boot environment

[justin.noor at componentscience.xyz]

In response to the last comment, generally speaking, is the AD aspect of dual booting challenging even with an external standalone Samba share? Overall we do not have much experience with dual booting, but having separate computers for each OS is not an option.


-------- Original Message --------
On 1/16/25 8:03 AM, Rowland Penny via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

>  On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:44:16 +0100
>  Christian Naumer via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>  
>  > I'll try to describe the "pitfalls":
>  >
>  > * You need to have your data on a separate partition with the NTFS
>  > file system -> Windows can only read these.
>  >
>  > * You need to mount that partition under Linux. That works, BUT ACL
>  > support is limited and interaction with Samba and NTFS might have
>  > issues if your ACLs are complex. Then you need to share that
>  > partition or a directory on there with both Samba and Windows.
>  
>  Saying 'limited' is a bit weak, I would say ACL support is virtually non
>  existent, the permissions you see when you mount an NTFS share on Linux
>  are totally fictitious.
>  
>  >
>  >
>  > Since you have no AD the computername should be the same under
>  > Windows and Linux. You need to create the users in both the OSes.
>  > There is no way to sync the users.
>  
>  The OP never said that there was no AD and you do not need the same
>  users, you just need to know who they are on the other OS, at least on
>  the Linux side.
>  
>  >
>  > All doable just wanted to point out the pitfalls.
>  
>  Dirty great crevasses, I'd say ;-)
>  
>  >
>  > Did you want to sync the files between the two OSes by Dropbox? So
>  > you would use up twice the space? That would also work.
>  >
>  > If you are firm with Linux the dual boot should also be viable for
>  > you.
>  
>  I would never recommend dual booting and trying to access one OS
>  partition from the other OS, too many things can go wrong, this is one
>  reason I stopped dual booting over 15 years ago.
>  
>  Rowland
>  
>  
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