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I Used to rum simply Mepis 8.0 and I had no trouble accessing the files from winxp. I recently changed to Ubuntu 10.10 with the ext3 file system and can't access the files from winxp. I know about the ext2IFS app and that is what I used with Mepis and it worked fine.
as far as I know EXT2IFS can mount only file systems with Inode size 128, it is possible that newer version of linux is creating one with 256. To determine run:
sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda# | grep Inode (substitute the # for number of your partition)
look for Inode size: if it is not 128 i doubt EXT2IFS will be able to mount it.
The OP's posts suggest that they want to access an ext3 partition from Windows on the same machine. You can't do this with Samba, since you'd need to be running Linux in order for the server to be active..
The OP's posts suggest that they want to access an ext3 partition from Windows on the same machine. You can't do this with Samba, since you'd need to be running Linux in order for the server to be active..
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