 | | | Sharing large files with W2K or WinXP | Sharing large files with W2K or WinXP 2003-07-12 - By John Haxby
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This is probably slightly off-topic for this list, but I know there 's
some good people reading this list.
I want to share large files -- files too big to fit in a FAT32 file
system -- between Windows (2K or XP) and Linux. I use NTFS to store
them on Windows at the moment, but access to them from Linux is somewhat
limited.
Now, I know that I could build a kernel with NTFS write access enabled,
but I 'm rather loathe to do that considering that NTFS write access is
generally regarded as, shall we say, somewhat dangerous. NFS and Samba
aren 't, I 'm afraid, an option since (a) it takes forever to copy a 15Gb
file across the network and (b) (more to the point) NFS and Samba
require both machines to be up at the same time and this is a dual-boot
machine I 'm talking about!
Does anyone have a solution to this kind of problem?
thanks
jch
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