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Re: Linux partitions seen on win95
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, James Olin Oden wrote:
A driver for windows95 (or nt) that allows seing ext2fs partitions already
exists for about 3-4 months.
--Ariel
> >
>
> 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 ifthere is any method to make the linux partitions seen
> > > under win95 os.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > Ishai Parasol
> > > parasol@isdn.net.il
> > >
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