[Samba] Samba in a dual boot environment
Rowland Penny
rpenny at samba.org
Wed Jan 22 15:26:04 UTC 2025
On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:36:24 +0000
componentscience via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
When you dual boot two OS's, you usually have each OS in its own
partition and each OS boots okay. If you then try to connect from one
OS to the other os's partition, then this is where the problems can
start.
Windows requires an NTFS filesystem, but Linux requires a partition
formatted in ext4, btrfs etc, anything but NTFS. Windows can mount a
Linux partition, but usually read only and it is basically the same
with regards to Linux mounting a Windows partition.
If what you are thinking of doing is starting the computer in one OS
and then connecting to the other OS's partition and changing things,
then I cannot recommend doing this.
You could add a third partition and connect to this from either OS, but
if you do this, I would suggest formatting it with exfat and only using
it for storing low privileged items.
You will need to install Windows first, otherwise you will have to fix
the Linux install after installing Windows. You should also be aware
that Windows updates have been known to stop Linux booting in a dual
boot setup.
Have you considered running one of the OS's in a VM on the other ?
Rowland
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