Re: [Samba] FAT32 format HDD recognizes as NTFS

2009-08-27 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Sallow, Du meintest am 27.08.09: 3. Using Map Network Drive of Windows XP to map the HDD to a windows network drive. 4.Open the mapped network drive, can see NTFS file system on the left details. [...] Why samba has this purpose? I think it shows right info that can make user more

[Samba] FAT32 format HDD recognizes as NTFS

2009-08-26 Thread Sallow Yang
Hi, The following are my steps: 1. Insert a FAT32 format HDD into usb port of Linux PC. 2. After HDD mounted successfully, configure and start samba to share the HDD. 3. Using Map Network Drive of Windows XP to map the HDD to a windows network drive. 4.Open the mapped network drive, can see NTFS

Re: [Samba] FAT32 format HDD recognizes as NTFS

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathon Doran
Quoting Sallow Yang sallow.y...@gmail.com: Hi, The following are my steps: 1. Insert a FAT32 format HDD into usb port of Linux PC. 2. After HDD mounted successfully, configure and start samba to share the HDD. 3. Using Map Network Drive of Windows XP to map the HDD to a windows network drive.

Re: [Samba] FAT32 format HDD recognizes as NTFS

2009-08-26 Thread Michael Heydon
4.Open the mapped network drive, can see NTFS file system on the left details. It shows the wrong info, could anybody help me? Thanks in advance!! My theory is that it has to do with the capabilities of the file system. Samba is presenting a FS that has ownership and permission capabilities,

Re: [Samba] FAT32 format HDD recognizes as NTFS

2009-08-26 Thread Sallow Yang
2009/8/27 Jonathon Doran j...@doransw.com Quoting Sallow Yang sallow.y...@gmail.com: Hi, The following are my steps: 1. Insert a FAT32 format HDD into usb port of Linux PC. 2. After HDD mounted successfully, configure and start samba to share the HDD. 3. Using Map Network Drive of

Re: [Samba] FAT32 format HDD recognizes as NTFS

2009-08-26 Thread Sallow Yang
2009/8/27 Michael Heydon micha...@jaswin.com.au 4.Open the mapped network drive, can see NTFS file system on the left details. It shows the wrong info, could anybody help me? Thanks in advance!! My theory is that it has to do with the capabilities of the file system. Samba is presenting

Re: [Samba] FAT32 format HDD recognizes as NTFS

2009-08-26 Thread John Drescher
Why samba has this purpose? I think it shows right info that can make user more clearly. Is the display error easy to be fixed by samba? In my opinion the display error is on the windows side. It should not be guessing what filesystem type a remote server is using. -- John M. Drescher --

Re: [Samba] FAT32 format HDD recognizes as NTFS

2009-08-26 Thread John H Terpstra - Samba Team
On 08/26/2009 08:58 PM, Jonathon Doran wrote: Quoting Sallow Yang sallow.y...@gmail.com: Hi, The following are my steps: 1. Insert a FAT32 format HDD into usb port of Linux PC. 2. After HDD mounted successfully, configure and start samba to share the HDD. 3. Using Map Network Drive of

Re: [Samba] FAT32 format HDD recognizes as NTFS

2009-08-26 Thread Sallow Yang
2009/8/27 John H Terpstra - Samba Team j...@samba.org On 08/26/2009 08:58 PM, Jonathon Doran wrote: Quoting Sallow Yang sallow.y...@gmail.com: Hi, The following are my steps: 1. Insert a FAT32 format HDD into usb port of Linux PC. 2. After HDD mounted successfully, configure and