Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows-CORRECTION

2010-05-07 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I'd be curious to know if it is still the case that ntfs writes are not reliable in that situation. There are times when doing this can be handy on a dual-boot laptop, for example. 'Anyone out there care to comment on the state of ntfs rw access? Sorry I was reading so

RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows-

2010-05-07 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
On 5/6/2010 5:06 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > > > > This is the company wide share everyone has access to it, > It even fails if I use the domain and enterprise admin accounts- > > And as I'm typing this, could that be the reason, because im using domain > accounts? > ___

Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows

2010-05-06 Thread Fbsd1
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I have a file I need in my bsd box, would it be easier, or is it possible, to mount an NTFS share , or should I try to "map" a directory from the windows box. TIA, I have Xp Win7 Win2003 Win2008 Freebsd 6.4 thanx Sounds like all your PCs are on

Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows-

2010-05-06 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 5/6/2010 5:06 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > > > > This is the company wide share everyone has access to it, > It even fails if I use the domain and enterprise admin accounts- > > And as I'm typing this, could that be the reason, because im using domain > accounts? >

Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows-

2010-05-06 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 5/6/2010 4:52 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: >> will be established. >> >> Same error: >> milter# mount_smbfs //jnat...@fcisql01/DATA /mnt >> Password: >> mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = Authentication error >> milter# >> > > This sounds like you have a permissions problem on the

RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows-

2010-05-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
This is the company wide share everyone has access to it, It even fails if I use the domain and enterprise admin accounts- And as I'm typing this, could that be the reason, because im using domain accounts? ___ That was it , I was using a domain ins

RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows-

2010-05-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
> will be established. > > Same error: > milter# mount_smbfs //jnat...@fcisql01/DATA /mnt > Password: > mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = Authentication error > milter# > This sounds like you have a permissions problem on the Windows share. In Windows Explorer, right click on the

RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows-CORRECTION

2010-05-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
>I'd be curious to know if it is still the case that ntfs writes are >not reliable in that situation. There are times when doing this >can be handy on a dual-boot laptop, for example. 'Anyone out there >care to comment on the state of ntfs rw access? Sorry I was reading so much I go the command

Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows

2010-05-06 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 5/6/2010 4:36 PM, Modulok wrote: >>> "writing to an NTFS partition may corrupt the partition" - I'm guessing >>> this is not the case anymore. > > That's only when you have directly mounted an NTFS on the local > machine. Like if you jacked a hard drive out of a windows machine and > plugged i

Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows-

2010-05-06 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 5/6/2010 4:32 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Tim Daneliuk > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 5:28 PM > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Subject:

Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows

2010-05-06 Thread Modulok
>> "writing to an NTFS partition may corrupt the partition" - I'm guessing this >> is not the case anymore. That's only when you have directly mounted an NTFS on the local machine. Like if you jacked a hard drive out of a windows machine and plugged it into your BSD machine. If you're accessing i

Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows

2010-05-06 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 5/6/2010 4:30 PM, Modulok wrote: > In order to 'provide' shares to a windows network you would need to > run a daemon on FreeBSD which provides such services. The most popular > solution is 'samba'. I think the package is called 'samba3'. You > install it, edit its config file, which specifies w

RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows-

2010-05-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Tim Daneliuk Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 5:28 PM To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows- On 5/6/2010 4:19 PM, Jean-Paul

Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows

2010-05-06 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 5/6/2010 4:12 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > > > On 5/6/2010 3:47 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I have a file I need in my bsd box, would it be easier, or is it possible, >> to mount an NTFS share , or should I try to "map" a directory from the >> windows box. >> >> >> TIA,

Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows

2010-05-06 Thread Modulok
In order to 'provide' shares to a windows network you would need to run a daemon on FreeBSD which provides such services. The most popular solution is 'samba'. I think the package is called 'samba3'. You install it, edit its config file, which specifies what to share and how to share it. You then r

Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows

2010-05-06 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > Thx for the quick reply, one question > > Which one , I have > > Samba3 > > Samba33 > > Samba34 > > Samba4wins > -- > look at samba.org for the lastest stable version and thats it. -- mmm, interesante. ___

Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows-

2010-05-06 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 5/6/2010 4:19 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > Well my book (absolute BSD) yes its old, says: > "writing to an NTFS partition may corrupt the partition" - I'm guessing this > is not the case anymore > and to answer your question; > > 1. Its 2 separate machines > 2. As a security standard I h

Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows

2010-05-06 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > > Well my book (absolute BSD) yes its old, says: > "writing to an NTFS partition may corrupt the partition" - I'm guessing > this is not the case anymore > and to answer your question; > > 1. Its 2 separate machines > 2. As a security sta

RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows-

2010-05-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Paul Natola Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 5:13 PM To: 'Tim Daneliuk'; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows On

RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows

2010-05-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
On 5/6/2010 3:47 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a file I need in my bsd box, would it be easier, or is it possible, to > mount an NTFS share , or should I try to "map" a directory from the windows > box. > > > TIA, > > I have > > Xp > Win7 > Win2003 > Win2008 > Free

Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows

2010-05-06 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 5/6/2010 3:47 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a file I need in my bsd box, would it be easier, or is it possible, to > mount an NTFS share , or should I try to "map" a directory from the windows > box. > > > TIA, > > I have > > Xp > Win7 > Win2003 > Win2008 > Freebs

Accessing file from windows or to windows

2010-05-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I have a file I need in my bsd box, would it be easier, or is it possible, to mount an NTFS share , or should I try to "map" a directory from the windows box. TIA, I have Xp Win7 Win2003 Win2008 Freebsd 6.4 thanx ___ freebsd-question