[Samba] Samba in a dual boot environment
justin.noor at componentscience.xyz
justin.noor at componentscience.xyz
Thu Jan 23 14:52:16 UTC 2025
On on the VM this has been briefly discussed. We are running CAD applications in Windows, and would need to confirm if they run well in a VM.
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On 1/22/25 7:26 AM, Rowland Penny via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 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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