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    freebsd / windows xp help please

    i know it's possible to view the contents of a windows partition on freebsd by using the mount_ntfs program, but is there any way to view the contents of a freebsd hard drive on windows?

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    As far as I know ub3r, Windows can't do it natively. Maybe there are third-party applications which can see it, but Windows just sees it as a drive ready to be formatted with Windows juice.

    This is a good question for www.linuxforums.org though.

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    You could install Samba on the FreeBSD box & set up the appropriate shares

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    Originally posted by Cloudmaster
    You could install Samba on the FreeBSD box & set up the appropriate shares
    Best, cheapest and less labour intensive this way I say....

    Samba is pretty simple to configure and in no time you will xp talking to linux....
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    The thing is that these partitions are on the same machine, so samba wouldn't work.

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    Originally posted by ub3r
    The thing is that these partitions are on the same machine, so samba wouldn't work.
    So you're dual-booting between FreeBSD & XP?

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    yes, and i am using the freebsd boot manager to select which os i want to boot to.

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    Googled for an answer but all I could find was a windows prog that can read ext2/3 partitions, the creator of that said there were no plans to expand to UFS.

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