[Samba] FAT32 format HDD recognizes as NTFS

[Jonathon Doran]

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.

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.