Todd,

   Question on this one ... In Samba if I share there, do I run into the
same limitations.  In other words if I samba mount a directory that is
shared via a lose2k or or any other ntfs do I have the same rw
restrictions or am I ok in this case?

James


On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 14:43, Todd Lyons wrote:
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> Azrael wrote on Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:26:26PM +0000 :
> > 
> > could anyone tell me how to make my NTFS partitions visible to all users 
> > (or at least 1 specific user), and writable by at least root.
> > am guessing changing 'ro' to 'rw' does makes them writable.. but will 
> > seek help rather than make errors :)
> 
> NO!!!!!
> 
> Do NOT mount it rw.  ntfs support in linux is only read capable.  If you
> attempt to write to it, you will damage your ntfs filesystem so badly
> that it cannot be recovered.  Do *NOT* mount it rw.  If you want to
> share data between win and lin, you need to use a fat32 partition.
> 
> Blue skies...                 Todd
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