On 21/11/2022 15:53, Java Jive wrote:
On 21/11/2022 14:15, Jeff Gaines wrote:
There are lots of suggestions online that
a shared drive should be nfs, problem is I don't know if that is a filing
system, a protocol or what so I would appreciate a steer.
Rereading the above, I realise that potentially it's ambiguous ...
If you mean you have a dual-boot system with both Linux & Windows OSs,
and wish to share data between the two, then all the below is true ...
Not, repeat *not*, NFS, which stands, IMS, for Network File System, and
is Linux' traditional networking protocol. You're confusing it with
NTFS, NT File System, as in Windows NT, where the NT originally stood
for New Technology, the 'new' being a supposedly entirely 32-bit Windows
as opposed to the preceding 16-bit versions, but IIRC was criticised at
the time for being in fact something of a hybrid.
If you have a dual-boot system between Linux and Windows, then, yes, a
shared data drive is probably best formatted as NTFS, which can be read
and written by both OSs, whereas Linux formats cannot natively be read
by Windows.
... however, if you mean that on any given machine you want to make data available over a network to other machines which might be running either
Linux or Windows, then the situation becomes a little more complicated.
As stated above, the Linux/Unix networking protocol is known as NFS. On
the machine sharing the data, you need to set up an NFS server,
including creating a file called /etc/exports with details of the data
areas to be shared. On the machines wishing to connect to the NFS
server over the network, you need to set up NFS clients, with which you
can connect on an ad hoc basis, and/or set up permanent connections in
the file /etc/fstab.
You probably know already that Windows machines can talk over a network
via NETBIOS over TCP/IP, and so can Linux machines using Samba, though connecting the latter can be a little clunky. It used to be that you
could create a file called by default /etc/samba/smbusers which
contained translations between Linux and Windows user names, which meant
that if you were signed on as a Linux user who had in this file a
username mapping to a corresponding Windows username, and if the
passwords were the same, authentication would occur automatically and connection would simply be a matter of navigating to the share via the
file manager of the particular Linux distro involved. However, this
doesn't seem to work any more, and now when you navigate to a Windows
share you have to click the machine and authenticate to get a list of
shares, and then click the share and authenticate again to access that,
a real bore.
Windows never used to be able to access NFS shares, but 7+ - perhaps
Vista+ but I can't state definitively on that - include an option to
do so:
Control Panel,
Programs and Features
Turn Windows features on and off
Services for NFS
I've not tried using this, so can't comment on how well or otherwise it
works.
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