[Replying to list] Quoting George Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Malcolm - thanks for the prompt reply. > I don't think I am trying to share a remote smbmounted file. Rather, I > AM trying to share a LOCAL (and presumably MOUNTed) WIN partition. OK. > Why am I doing this? On my home network, the WIN client runs WIN apps > like MS OUTLOOK that share one common OUTLOOK data file (one user at a > time) with my "server" WINXP machine. I want to have this box in Linux > mode (not WIN). You don't have many options then. 1) If you're stuck with using NTFS, you can only use read-only mode. Make your smb.conf share those as read-only [you can enable fake oplocks on the read-only shares for extra speed w/o risks]. You will need to mount the share as ro. Make sure you change the /mnt directory permissions to allow browsing (+rx). 2) If you can reformat the partition to use FAT32 (note: despite Win2k's protestations at FORMATTING a FAT32 larger than 32GB, the format DOES support up to 127GB. There are replacement tools for Win32 (which are essentially ports of the Linux mkdosfs) to format FAT32's > 32GB. Google for them. > How can I make it available? Is it even possible? I am prepared to > forget about the Read-only constraint. Sure it's possible. It's very simple and straightforward. Samba will cheerfully share that read-only NTFS volume for you. Cheers, =MB= -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
