To answer several questions, the NTFS read problem only applies when the disk is attached to the system as a normal disk (i.e. via IDE, SCSI (and may be even a SAN)) and not over the network.
Think of it this way, when you export a filesystem via samba do the clients care that the underlying filesystem is ext2, ext3, reiser, XFS, FAT, etc.? No, because samba hides all that; the client makes smb filesystem calls. It is the same when a Linux system mounts a samba or NFS drive, it makes smb or NFS filesystem calls and nevers knows about the underlying filesystem on the server. On Wednesday 27 November 2002 05:43 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: > 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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