Setting up SAMBA on a laptop using Dapper Drake

[sdavmor]

stude.list at googlemail.com wrote:
> On 11/10/06, sdavmor <sdavmor at systemstheory.net> wrote:
>> Devraj Mukherjee wrote:
>>> You mean a 20gb NTFS or FAT partition?
>> Yes. That's what I mean. Is there any reason for NTFS over FAT32 or
>> vice versa, based on my need to write to it from both WinXP and *nix?
> I'm not sure if its safe to write ntfs from *nix yet.
> The file system need to be reverse engineered and if they make a
> mistake it can destroy your entire partition.
> 
> I would use FAT32, windows can read/write and will auto mount it.
> Linux will read/write and can be instructed to auto mount it.
> 
> But I'm not an expert on these matters.
> 
> NTFS can be safely READ from Linux (or atleast I hope it can because
> if it can't I just lost one of my partitons ;)).
> 
> - Andy

OK.  I'll go Win32 for now.  Thanks.
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