On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:52:15 -0500
Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> At 12:29 PM -0300 3/26/05, Alejandro Pulver wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I am using FreeBSD 5.3 with Samba 3.0.7,1.
> >
> >I can read all files from a Windows 2000 Pro. But when I try
> >to access a mount point that is an NTFS filesystem, I have
> >no read permission (files and directories appear as zero
> >length files) until I access them from the server machine
> >(like doing an 'ls').
> 
> Let me see if I understand the situation:
> 
> You have a FreeBSD box running Samba.  You have Win2k boxes
> which connect to file shares on that FreeBSD box.  When they
> do, the PC's can not access partitions on the FreeBSD box,
> unless the FreeBSD box has already accessed them.
> 

Yes.

> I don't quite understand the reference to NTFS.  Are you saying
> that the *FreeBSD* box is mounting NTFS partitions, and it then
> makes those partitions available to the PC's via Samba?  Where
> are those NTFS partitions located?  Are they on the hard drives
> of the FreeBSD box?  Or is the FreeBSD box mounting them from
> some other file server?
> 

The NTFS slice I mount at '/mnt/w2k' is in the server. I only have two
machines.

> >Note: I have subdirectories under '/mnt' like 'w2k', 'wxp',
> >'cam', and 'tmp'.
> >
> >What am I doing wrong?
> 
> What *exactly* is your /etc/fstab file?  The fact that you
> have directories under /mnt does not tell us anything about
> what filesystems you are mounting, or how they are getting
> mounted.
> 
> -- 
> Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Senior Systems Programmer           or  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

This is my '/etc/fstab':

====================================================================
# Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump    Pass#
/dev/ad2s4b             none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/ad2s4a             /               ufs     rw              1       1
/dev/ad2s4e             /tmp            ufs     rw              2       2
/dev/ad2s4f             /usr            ufs     rw              2       2
/dev/ad2s4d             /var            ufs     rw              2       2
devfs                   /dev            devfs   rw              0       0
/dev/acd0               /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
/dev/fd0                /floppy         msdosfs rw,noauto       0       0
/dev/ad0s5              /mnt/w2k        ntfs    ro              0       0
/dev/ad0s1              /mnt/wxp        msdosfs rw              0       0
/dev/ad2s1              /mnt/deb        ext2fs  rw,noauto       0       0
/dev/da0s1              /mnt/cam        msdosfs rw,noauto       0       0
procfs                  /proc           procfs  rw              0       0
linprocfs               /compat/linux/proc   linprocfs  rw      0       0
====================================================================

Please see the complete thread (there is more information there).

Thanks and Best Regards,
Ale
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