[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“Ever since Samba came along, it’s never been too much trouble
getting information from Windows machines to Linux systems.“You just mounted the Windows file system with SMB (server
message block) as a network drive, and you could read and write to
the Windows NTFS (New Technology File System) disk volumes as
easily as you could to the older FAT (File Allocation Table)
systems…”
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