DUH! Sorry bout that! I sooo seldom dual boot that it never even occured to me that is what he is doing. Re-reading his post, it becomes clear!
Thanks for the whack to my head! ;-) Cheers, Steve Esh, Andrew wrote: >Note that he didn't say he was mounting the NTFS disk remotely. He could be >dual booting this host, and he may need to use the disk in both >environments. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Steve Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 9:54 PM >To: AndyChu >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: ntfs issue > > >Why in the hell are you doing that??? > >Why aren't you accessing the 80 G of mpeg files directly from the W2K >system instead of going through your Linux system? > >What are you trying to accomplish? Doesn't make sense to me why you are >doing it that way! > >Cheers, >Steve > >AndyChu wrote: > > > >>Thx for reply. May be I have to tell the story in detail. I have about >> >> >80G's MPEG file in the hard disk with format of NTFS without any security >setting. > > >>Yesterday, I tried to mount the hard disk in redhat 8.0 (kernel Version >> >> >2.4.18-14) with download & install the suitable ntfs service pack(from >linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net). I mount it on the /tmp/win directory. It >success. I can see it at linux side. And then I launch the samba server and >make the /tmp directoy be shared with name tmp. I checked by using smbclient >utility indise the linux platform to connect the samba server. The MPEG >files can be seen inside tmp/win without problem. After that, I use a >win2000 workstation to connect that shared 'tmp' on samba server. Those file >inside the tmp directory can be seen(that is the linux file) but the MPEG >files inside directoy tmp/win cannot be shown. That's what I would like to >say. > > >>Thanks >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Esh, Andrew >> To: 'Steve Langasek' ; AndyChu >> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 3:41 AM >> Subject: RE: ntfs issue >> >> >> (I assume you're asking about serving an NTFS partition via Samba, which >> >> >is being hosted on a non-Windows OS which is capable of mounting NTFS >partitions.) > > >> You'd have to depend on the quality of the NTFS support on the OS of the >> >> >host which is running Samba. It may not support features like Extended >Attributes, which would prevent ACL storage and the NT Security System from >working. There may also be some filename length and case mangling rules that >aren't the same. Depends on the OS, depends on the NTFS mount support. > > >> Other than that, simple unsecured file service should work. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Steve Langasek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 9:46 AM >> To: AndyChu >> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: ntfs issue >> >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:06:55PM +0800, AndyChu wrote: >> > Does samba support share those files in a ntfs partition ? >> >> This is meaningless. Samba does not "support" NTFS partitions, because >> Samba does not interface with partitions. If you are asking whether >> Samba can *serve* shares from NTFS partitions, that's a question of >> whether the host OS supports the filesystem. If you are asking whether >> Samba (smbclient) can *access* shares on NTFS partitions, then yes -- >> though NTFS has little to do with it. >> >> -- >> Steve Langasek >> postmodern programmer >> >> >> >> >> >> > > >
