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grusomhat · #1 2008-03-18, 07:06

I've just installed debian on an old computer and am going to use it as a media/file server for mah home network. The problem is, we have a debian, xp and vista computer on the network. I'd like all these computers to be able to read and write to the server.

The only solution I can see is formatting as fat32 but that's not that ideal.

My question is, If I just use standard ext3 would the other windows computers be able to write to it?

MR FLIBBLE · #2 2008-03-18, 17:14

network drives can be any filesystem as far as i know. I have had little to no trouble wtiting to any filesystem from any OS through networked drive.
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i amtrying to set this up now, and have run into trouble... i don't think its a filesystem problem
but windows seems to not have write permisions, i will work on this and get back to you

grusomhat · #3 2008-03-18, 18:47

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Originally Posted by MR FLIBBLE View Post

network drives can be any filesystem as far as i know. I have had little to no trouble wtiting to any filesystem from any OS through networked drive.
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i amtrying to set this up now, and have run into trouble... i don't think its a filesystem problem
but windows seems to not have write permisions, i will work on this and get back to you

Ahh ok, I guess cause it's the server actually writing to the drive. Awesome

Ok and your problem is you probably need to mount with the correct permissions or something,

Prometheum · #4 2008-03-18, 20:12

Set up whatever filesystem you want, it won't matter (though I would recommend ReiserFS or XFS over ext3 for a server). The clients should be accessing the files through an abstraction, probably Samba if you're going to be communicating with windows boxes.

MR FLIBBLE · #5 2008-03-18, 20:17

for the drive to work in windows do you have to mount it? the windows computer gets a list of files that are shared and cannot open them.

Prometheum · #6 2008-03-19, 01:34

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Originally Posted by MR FLIBBLE View Post

for the drive to work in windows do you have to mount it? the windows computer gets a list of files that are shared and cannot open them.

Make sure your samba permissions are correct. SWAT is pretty easy to use from what I hear. You don't need to map the drives locally to access the files.