[Samba] FAT32 format HDD recognizes as NTFS

[Sallow Yang]

2009/8/27 Michael Heydon <michaelh at jaswin.com.au>

>
>  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!!
>>>
>> My theory is that it has to do with the capabilities of the file system.
> Samba is presenting a FS that has ownership and permission capabilities,
> Windows only knows of one FS that supports those capabilities, therefore it
> must be NTFS.


But I think windows NTFS supports ownership and permission that is different
from the samba's, am I right? How do they correspond?

>
> I doubt it has any real effect, it's not like Windows will try to run
> chkdsk on it or anything.


I don't know if there is any effect or not.

>
>  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.
>>
> The client should really see it as a SMB or CIFS volume rather than NTFS.
>
>  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.
>>
> I would have said it was closer to exporting an ext3 FS over NFS and the
> client reporting that it is reiser.
>
> *Michael Heydon - IT Administrator *
> michaelh at jaswin.com.au <mailto:michaelh at jaswin.com.au>
>
>
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
> instructions:  https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
>

Thanks for your reply!

-- 
Best Regards,
Sallow Yang