[Samba] FAT32 format HDD recognizes as NTFS

[John H Terpstra - Samba Team]

On 08/26/2009 08:58 PM, Jonathon Doran wrote:
> 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.

Please refer to the man page for smb.conf. Look up the parameter "fstype".

- John T.