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Re: Linux partitions seen on win95



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Potentially someone could write a driver to allow Win 95 to see Linux partitions,
but are you sure you want to do that?  The reason I ask is that at that point you
would lose the security of your system, because Win 95 knows nothing about Linux's
security, so it would be as if someone was logged in as root whenever they viewed
the Linux filesystem from Win 95.  The reverse scenario has already happened with
Win NT and Linux, as the drivers for the NTFS filesystem that run under Linux
totally circumnavigate the ACL's/security (yes that is right a linux boot disk
with the NTFS drivers and what was locked is opened on an NT system).

At anyrate the best approach is to boot into Linux and place what you want onto
the Win 95 partition.  I know that is a pain if you use the same set of files in
Linux and Win 95 but it is necessary.  The other alternative is if you could find
an old 386 or 486 for cheap you could load Linux on it and set it up as a Samba
Server.  Put those files which you need to access from both systems on the Samba
server and then they will be accesible to both.  This would of course require
minimally two cheap network cards and a cross over cable.  At anyrate that is
probably the better solution in the long run.

...james

> Windows 95 only sees FAT partitions. It can't see ext2 partitions.
> If you need to transfer files from your Linux partition to the w95,
> you'd have to do that under Linux.
>
> Ishai Parasol wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > I'd like to know if there is any method to make the linux partitions seen
> > under win95 os.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Ishai Parasol
> > parasol@isdn.net.il
> >
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