NFS and FAT32 Shares

I am looking for a way to share files between two computers on my network.
Computer A - dual boot (Win98, RH 9)
Computer B - RH 9

I have directories mounted in fstab on computer A that are FAT32, and I want
to be able to access them from computer B. The information that I got from
the NFS howto says that it is not advisable to share FAT32 partitions with
NFS. Is there another way to go about sharing these files without changing
that partition to ext3? Or am I pretty much stuck with not having the files
accessible to both computers when running linux unless I do so?

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Scott Maxell schrieb:
> I am looking for a way to share files between two computers on my network.
> Computer A - dual boot (Win98, RH 9)
> Computer B - RH 9
>
> I have directories mounted in fstab on computer A that are FAT32, and I want
> to be able to access them from computer B. The information that I got from
> the NFS howto says that it is not advisable to share FAT32 partitions with
> NFS. Is there another way to go about sharing these files without changing
> that partition to ext3? Or am I pretty much stuck with not having the files
> accessible to both computers when running linux unless I do so?
>

I think the best is to mount the directories on computer B.
So it doesn't matter if A is running linux or win.Use
smbmount, mount or add it to fstab on combuter B. For more
information see:
Mounting a windows machines drives on a linux machine
here in network

summary:
smbmount //servername/sharename /localname -o username=xxx

you can write this to fstab
//servername/sharename /localfolder smbfs
rw,noauto,user,umask=000 0 0

Scott Maxell wrote:

> I am looking for a way to share files between two computers on my network.
> Computer A - dual boot (Win98, RH 9)
> Computer B - RH 9

Samba.

<snipped NFS babble>

Samba.

You can easily share a partition with both Samba and NSF at the same time;
share them from the B machine, don't bother with A (use ONE partition for
sharing data between the systems; save yourself some headaches!)

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Jeroen Geilman

All your bits are belong to us.

Scott Maxell wrote:

> I am looking for a way to share files between two computers on my network.
> Computer A - dual boot (Win98, RH 9)
> Computer B - RH 9
>
> I have directories mounted in fstab on computer A that are FAT32, and I
> want to be able to access them from computer B. The information that I got
> from the NFS howto says that it is not advisable to share FAT32 partitions
> with NFS. Is there another way to go about sharing these files without
> changing that partition to ext3? Or am I pretty much stuck with not having
> the files accessible to both computers when running linux unless I do so?
>

I guess this needs some clarification after reading the replies and
rereading my original post. What I want to accomplish is to share the FAT32
partition on computer A when BOTH computers are running linux. The
directories on computer A are mounted in FSTAB when I boot into Linux. All
I want is R/O access to these files (mp3's, movies) so that they are
accessible to computer B. It is the Linux-Linux connection that I am
wondering about because of the advisory not to share FAT32 partitions with
NFS.

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