[Samba] winxp mounts share RAW instead of NTFS

Martin C. Barlow samba at martin.barlow.name
Wed Mar 3 08:12:36 GMT 2004


I have a debian testing/2.6.3/samba 3.0.2

50% of the time when i mount a share from winxp to the debian, it mounts RAW
instead of NTFS. This can be found by viewing the properties of the drive.

When it mounts as RAW, winxp refuses to copy long filenames.

The fstype is NTFS by default and i have not changed it. Why is winxp
getting confused?

By the way, I have two shares which have exactly the same permissions.
Sometimes both, one or neither work.

<smb.conf>
#======================= Global Settings =======================
[global]
## Browsing/Identification ###
preferred master = yes
domain master = yes
workgroup = barlow
server string = %h server (Samba %v)
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
syslog = 0
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d

####### Authentication #######
bind interfaces only = yes
interfaces = eth0 lo 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0
security = share
encrypt passwords = true
passdb backend = tdbsam guest
obey pam restrictions = yes
guest account = nobody
invalid users = root
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n
*Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .
############ Misc ############
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
#======================= Share Definitions =======================
[software]
    path = /mnt/d/software
    guest only = yes
[software$]
    path = /mnt/d/software
    guest only = no
    read only = no
    browseable = no
[music]
    path = /mnt/d/music
    guest only = yes
[music$]
    path = /mnt/d/music
    guest only = no
    read only = no
    browseable = no





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