# access linux file system from windows **URL:** \ **Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\ **Created:** [March 4, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/access-linux-file-system-from-windows/25212 "2014-03-04T18:38:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/access-linux-file-system-from-windows/25212/1 "2014-03-04T18:38:23Z")
Still learning my way around Linux. I am running Sophos Enterprise Console on a Windows box with the Novell Client. It is updating folder structures on a NetWare server and a couple of OES 11 servers. The Netware server is hosting a website that I want to move to SLES 11. What would be the simplest method to give the Windows box access to the SLES 11 file system so Sophos can do its thing? I need to provide a UNC path for Sophos to use. Thanks, Ken ---
**Author:** ![ab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@ab1](https://forums.suse.com/u/ab1)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/access-linux-file-system-from-windows/25212/2 "2014-03-04T18:55:56Z")
If they really are OES boxes you could potentially mount drives to both servers using the Novell Client and then sophos wouldn’t know anything about the actual filesystems. Otherwise you can setup SMB pretty easily, either on SLES or OES, for access to whatever location. If you were not constrained by sophos I’d recommend just accessing the filesystem via SSH since it’s already enabled and simple and secure. Tools like winscp are available for free to provide this access, but any old Linux box could do this as well in KDE or Gnome using the regular file browser tools built into the system. – Good luck. If you find this post helpful and are logged into the web interface, show your appreciation and click on the star below… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/access-linux-file-system-from-windows/25212/3 "2014-03-04T19:38:56Z")
On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:55:56 GMT, ab [ab@no-mx.forums.suse.com](mailto:ab@no-mx.forums.suse.com) wrote: [color=blue] > If they really are OES boxes you could potentially mount drives to both > servers using the Novell Client and then sophos wouldn’t know anything > about the actual filesystems. Otherwise you can setup SMB pretty easily, > either on SLES or OES, for access to whatever location.[/color] They are OES boxes and I am using the Novell client for those and it works fine. But now I have a SLES box that I need to figure out how to handle. I’ll take a look at SMB. [color=blue] > If you were not constrained by sophos I’d recommend just accessing the > filesystem via SSH since it’s already enabled and simple and secure. > Tools like winscp are available for free to provide this access, but any > old Linux box could do this as well in KDE or Gnome using the regular file > browser tools built into the system.[/color] I currently use putty and winscp to access my SLES boxes. But that won’t help me with Sophos. Ken ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/access-linux-file-system-from-windows/25212/4 "2014-03-04T20:45:04Z")
On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:55:56 GMT, ab [ab@no-mx.forums.suse.com](mailto:ab@no-mx.forums.suse.com) wrote: [color=blue] > about the actual filesystems. Otherwise you can setup SMB pretty easily, > either on SLES or OES, for access to whatever location.[/color] That was fairly easy. Thanks! Ken