ntfs issue

[Steve Williams]

DUH!

Sorry bout that! I sooo seldom dual boot that it never even occured to
me that is what he is doing. Re-reading his post, it becomes clear!

Thanks for the whack to my head! ;-)

Cheers,
Steve

Esh, Andrew wrote:

>Note that he didn't say he was mounting the NTFS disk remotely. He could be
>dual booting this host, and he may need to use the disk in both
>environments.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Williams [mailto:swilliams at rinax.com]
>Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 9:54 PM
>To: AndyChu
>Cc: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
>Subject: Re: ntfs issue
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>Why in the hell are you doing that???
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>Why aren't you accessing the 80 G of mpeg files directly from the W2K
>system instead of going through your Linux system?
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>What are you trying to accomplish? Doesn't make sense to me why you are
>doing it that way!
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>Cheers,
>Steve
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>AndyChu wrote:
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>>Thx for reply. May be I have to tell the story in detail. I have about
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>80G's MPEG file in the hard disk with format of NTFS without any security
>setting.
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>>Yesterday, I tried to mount the hard disk in redhat 8.0 (kernel Version
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>2.4.18-14) with download & install the suitable ntfs service pack(from
>linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net). I mount it on the /tmp/win directory. It
>success. I can see it at linux side. And then I launch the samba server and
>make the /tmp directoy be shared with name tmp. I checked by using smbclient
>utility indise the linux platform to connect the samba server. The MPEG
>files can be seen inside tmp/win without problem. After that, I use a
>win2000 workstation to connect that shared 'tmp' on samba server. Those file
>inside the tmp directory can be seen(that is the linux file) but the MPEG
>files inside directoy tmp/win cannot be shown. That's what I would like to
>say.
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>>Thanks 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: Esh, Andrew 
>> To: 'Steve Langasek' ; AndyChu 
>> Cc: samba-technical at lists.samba.org 
>> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 3:41 AM
>> Subject: RE: ntfs issue
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>> (I assume you're asking about serving an NTFS partition via Samba, which
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>is being hosted on a non-Windows OS which is capable of mounting NTFS
>partitions.)
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>> You'd have to depend on the quality of the NTFS support on the OS of the
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>host which is running Samba. It may not support features like Extended
>Attributes, which would prevent ACL storage and the NT Security System from
>working. There may also be some filename length and case mangling rules that
>aren't the same. Depends on the OS, depends on the NTFS mount support.
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>> Other than that, simple unsecured file service should work. 
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>> -----Original Message----- 
>> From: Steve Langasek [mailto:vorlon at netexpress.net] 
>> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 9:46 AM 
>> To: AndyChu 
>> Cc: samba-technical at lists.samba.org 
>> Subject: Re: ntfs issue 
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>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:06:55PM +0800, AndyChu wrote: 
>> > Does samba support share those files in a ntfs partition ? 
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>> This is meaningless.  Samba does not "support" NTFS partitions, because 
>> Samba does not interface with partitions.  If you are asking whether 
>> Samba can *serve* shares from NTFS partitions, that's a question of 
>> whether the host OS supports the filesystem.  If you are asking whether 
>> Samba (smbclient) can *access* shares on NTFS partitions, then yes -- 
>> though NTFS has little to do with it. 
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>> -- 
>> Steve Langasek 
>> postmodern programmer 
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