Subject: Re: file sharing between platforms?
From: Alberto Cabello Sanchez (alberto@unex.es)
Date: Thu Oct 25 2001 - 01:18:58 CDT
I think you can share a folder under Window$ and mount it as smbfs under a linux
box.
P.D.: I still use floppies (I know, I have to take a while and buy a ZIP).
El Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:46:02PM -0700, Phil Stracchino escribió:
> > Or floppies, ZipDisk, CDR, HTTP, ... You can even mount a windows partition
> > under linux and then keep all of your documents on that, thus avoiding
> > configuring Samba altogether.
>
> Not if it's on a different machine, which was Bill's scenario. You're
> right that sneakernet always works, though, although not all laptops
> support internal Zip, and parallel-port Zips are flaky in my experience.
>
> Standard 3.5" floppies, IMHO, should be declared obsolete and consigned to
> the bit-bucket of hardware kept around on dusty back shelves solely in
> case you someday need to recover some obscure file off of one. There's
> several different 100MB+ "superfloppy" formats on the market, it's about
> time we just bit the bullet and adopted one of them (say, ZIP250) as a
> standard. Hell, LS120 is even backward-compatible (although I'm told it's
> rather slower than Zip).
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