From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 4 21:34:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE65E16A80D for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 21:34:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thenasko@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8040F43D46 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 21:34:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thenasko@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m51so1203789pye for ; Sun, 04 Jun 2006 14:34:53 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tft9ihLdqKgwVLECE1MZT8avvy6pUY9SXEEnD5GSUT0iZAAFqUDmnWAQAIYz9QyUvBiooYzo9vr77a9CYyC1k1F36k9W1nR1N9ZMKLDVDk24fuyh7G1CC6+PvlU2Snb2zeoPbYts+pyxgOQl7s7p6h0Imrd5MccsDAZkyTkfA+4= Received: by 10.35.77.18 with SMTP id e18mr5366099pyl; Sun, 04 Jun 2006 14:27:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.52.11 with HTTP; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 14:27:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 23:27:56 +0200 From: "Atanas Atanasov" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <65394600-0351-413E-82AD-D74FBE76D4C8@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <65394600-0351-413E-82AD-D74FBE76D4C8@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: mount windows xp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 21:34:55 -0000 I often do this and there are two practical solutions. One is as Garrett mentioned to simply have a small FAT32 partition that suits your needs (remember max file size is 4GB), call it buffer, and mount if from both OS. A better solution may be to use samba. This is much better, but you need an extra server running either pure Windows or some alternative OS with samba server. Then you simply access this server from both OS and it should not be a problem hopefully. Sometimes I am surprised by the wonders an extra smbfs record in fstab can do. It is very very practical, believe me. It has saved me out of sticky situations a number of times. Just remember to put tight security settings on the file server. Atanas