Is it possible to mount external ext3 network drive from Windows through ssh/sftp ?
I would like to avoid samba/cifs.
Two things that aren't Samba come to mind:
There's also the brilliant "sort of VPN over SSH" solution sshuttle, if you have a Linux-ish gateway on the remote network.
I think it could be done using sshfs. It is available for all platforms. http://code.google.com/p/win-sshfs/
did try with following tools https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/