Windoz version and linux version can share the datafiles.
If you properly configure an ODBC driver from your application box and give the Linux server the same IP address of Windoz server, then whichever you start it will work correctly.
To use a unique dataset create a FAT partition on the harddrive, you can then save all datafiles only once for both systems.
To do so, edity My.ini in Windoz and enable Symbolic links
Add this line in the
[mysqld] section
use-symbolic-links
Then create a symbolic link in the Windoz mysql\data\ directory to point to all related datafiles.
Now linux, mount the FAT partition, do the same in the
/var/bin/mysql directory or whichever is your datafiles directory and both systems will work off the same dataset.
Symbolic links only work for version 4 or above.
Bye
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I have been happy throughout my life in thinking that samba was I kind of dance; now I live with Linux and all I do is working.