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. Of course, this presumed that the files you wanted to get your hands on were on a network drive. If they were hidden away on an NTFS local drive or PC drive that wasn't part of an NT-style domain or AD (Active Directory) forest, things then got more tricky.
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