[Samba] FAT32 format HDD recognizes as NTFS

[Sallow Yang]

2009/8/27 Jonathon Doran <jon at doransw.com>

> Quoting Sallow Yang <sallow.yang at 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.
>> 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!!
>>
>
> Samba allows a directory your Linux box to appear to be an NTFS volume.
>  That is its purpose.  It really doesn't matter what the original filesystem
> is:  you can export an ext3 filesystem, ext4, xfs, FAT32... whatever the
> original filesystem is, the Samba clients (for example your XP machine) will
> see it as an NTFS volume.
>
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?

>
> This isn't really all that different (in my opinion) from the way that NFS
> will make directories appear as NFS volumes.  It didn't matter what the
> original filesystem was in that case either.
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Thanks for your reply!

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Best Regards,
Sallow Yang