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NTFS question that I DIDNT see answered in the FAQ

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WageSlave

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Sorry if I missed this in the faq but I wanted something clarified....

I know that you cannot dual boot with win98se or me and see files on an NTFS partition, BUT I have been told that you can see files on an NTFS partition from a machine using one of these os's that is networked with a machine with NTFS... How is this possible?
 
That's correct.

This is because the target machine handles all the file management calls.
 
When you request a file over the network the host OS does all the reading/writing to the files so it doesn't matter what OS or filesystem is used as long as both speak the same network protocol.

It's on reason why Linux (or any non-MS OS) can so easily be a fileserver or web server to Windows clients, I can serve my files from any filesystem I want be it ext2, reiserfs, XFS, etc and the client could care less.
 
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