Re: security [was: Linux partitions seen on win95]

1999-03-30 Thread Guy Baruch
Probably most people here know this, but for those that don't: the way to protect sensitive data is to cipher it, wether as a ciphered partition (CFS) or, if that's too slow, there are other ways on the same principal. these tools require another password (a "mount" password) for accessing the o

Re: Linux partitions seen on win95

1999-03-29 Thread James Olin Oden
"Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote: > JOO>> The reason I ask is that at that point you would lose the > JOO>> security of your system, because Win 95 knows nothing about > JOO>> Linux's security, so it would be as if someone was logged in > JOO>> as root whenever they viewed the Linux filesys

Re: Linux partitions seen on win95 + URL of the driver

1999-03-28 Thread Dmitry Fink (aka FINiK)
The driver DOES exist, and it worked fine for about a year, but recently I get a blue screen whenever I run it. But it did work. URL: http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/ Note that when mounting you have to use /dev/sd[a,b,c..] or something instead of /dev/hd[a,b,c...]. F

Re: Linux partitions seen on win95

1999-03-28 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, James Olin Oden wrote: A driver for windows95 (or nt) that allows seing ext2fs partitions already exists for about 3-4 months. --Ariel > > > > Potentially someone could write a driver to allow Win 95 to see Linux partitions, > but are you sure you want to do that?The reas

Re: Linux partitions seen on win95

1999-03-28 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
JOO>> Potentially someone could write a driver to allow Win 95 to JOO>> see Linux partitions, but are you sure you want to do that? It's done, so the question is invalid. Though last time I looked operation with the EXT2 tools was a bit painful (somewhat like CP/M or even worse), but that was

Re: Linux partitions seen on win95

1999-03-28 Thread James Olin Oden
> Potentially someone could write a driver to allow Win 95 to see Linux partitions, but are you sure you want to do that? The reason I ask is that at that point you would lose the security of your system, because Win 95 knows nothing about Linux's security, so it would be as if someone was logge

Re: Linux partitions seen on win95

1999-03-27 Thread Nuriyev Vadim
Check out this tool: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/ext2/ext2tool_1_1.zip On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Ishai Parasol wrote: > I'd like to know if there is any method to make the linux partitions seen > under win95 os. ==

Re: Linux partitions seen on win95

1999-03-27 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Ishai Parasol wrote: > I'd like to know if there is any method to make the linux partitions seen > under win95 os. You need fsdext2. The url I have is no longer valid, so look for it. -- Matan Ziv-Av.[EMAIL PROTECTED] ù"ãç äæ ìàîù íòôä íâ Vote MAKI - T

Re: Linux partitions seen on win95

1999-03-27 Thread Isaac Aaron
Windows 95 only sees FAT partitions. It can't see ext2 partitions. If you need to transfer files from your Linux partition to the w95, you'd have to do that under Linux. Ishai Parasol wrote: > Hello > > I'd like to know if there is any method to make the linux partitions seen > under win95 os. >

Linux partitions seen on win95

1999-03-27 Thread Ishai Parasol
Hello I'd like to know if there is any method to make the linux partitions seen under win95 os. thanks, Ishai Parasol [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Linux - It's safe now to turn ON your computer...