This is kind of right up my alley, so to speak, for what I'm doing with my friends computer. He has a NTFS formatted external hard drive with a bunch of files saved to it through his xp box. I want to make the ubuntu install (on the master boot record) able to read and write to it, but I dont wan't to use samba. I'm looking for something more secure.
I remember when Jeff Lassman was looking for such a solution for his data center, someone (maybe it was Randall Whitman) suggested some system that had been implemented at a University. Anyone remember what that was. What did you go with after all Jeff? Any suggestions anyone. Thanks Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:33:06 -0700 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [LinuxUsers] Ext3(/ext2) FileSystem support on Windows Vista For those of you that have been following my saga on IRC for the previous 2 nights, I have been attempting to use my Ext3-formatted 500Gb external hard drive over a Firewire800 connection from my Windows Vista machine. After about 10 hours of debugging, including over 40 reboots, I finally got it working. The problem that held me up for such a long time was the failed drivers for the firewire stack. The firewire800 card I installed came with a driver CD which installed the hardware driver, and also installed an additional firewire stack called ub1394. (http://www.unibrain.com/download/download.asp) Well, this turned out to be the problem. The ubCore stuff didn't work with my external drive, which is actually 2 devices in one, with hardware RAID, etc. so the device never actually showed up as a disk which could be partitioned or assigned as a volume. Once I uninstalled the ubCore stuff and reverted back to the Vista-default ohci1394.sys, the drive/volume list was detected almost instantly (after the reboot of course) For accessing the ext3 filesystem I installed Ext2Fsd (http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/projects/projects.htm) and so far have been really impressed. I was able to copy about 63Gb of stuff to the drive in about an hour (over Firewire800). So far I have been able to create new directories, drag/drop/delete files from Windows Explorer, and the filesystem has remained a valid ext3 volume. (Assuming you have the right underlying drivers for firewire or usb or sata or whatever your disk is on...) if you have a need to read an ext3 formatted disk into a Windows system, I have found ext2fsd to be pretty good, and quite a bit easier to configure than some of the other ext2/3 IFS's for Windows. Some screenshots attached. --Forwarded Message Attachment-- To: [email protected] Subject: ext3 pics Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:22:17 -0700 From: [email protected] _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail now works up to 70% faster. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_faster_112008
