Hi all !


I started to wonder today... about Samba and filesystems

oh, and just saying, pardon me if this is so basic that everyone should know it..


I have a small home network, consisting of a server running among other things Samba and 1 linux and 2 win clients.


What I wonder sbout is this : When I access the Samba server from windows and copy stuff over to the server, am I writing to ext3 filesystem from windows ? or is Samba acting as some sort of "interpreting" filesystem ? I saw one option regarding NTFS in an example smb.conf somwhere, but if it acts like NTFS, why can I write from win98 ?


Just thinking.... thanks for any reply

you are not writing to the filesystem on the remote machine, you are simply passing the file to a network socket upon which a server is listening to accept the data and IT then write to the filesystem. the client isn't speaking ext3, but smb or cifs.

hello there samba uses the protocol smb which means server messaging block which all versions of windows uses to talk to each other over a network so you will be saving your work on a ext3 filesystem because over a network the filesystem is transparent to the other operating system so a linux box can save on a ntfs drive or visa versa.

ahh...thanks !

I'm not comfortable not knowing