[H-GEN] Getting Samba to read NTFS partitions

[Robert Kearey]

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Stephen Connor wrote:

> I currently have three OS running on my home machine Red Hat 8.0,
> Mandrake 9.0 and Windows XP. When Mandrake starts up it automatically
> mounts the Win XP partition under /mnt/nt and everything is sweet.

Yarrgh. Mandrake actually mounts ntfs partitions? That's ... brave.

> Under
> Red Hat (This is my primary OS) it doesn't do this. When I go to mount
> this partition manually I get an error 'fs type ntfs not supported by
> kernel'.

Nope. Mounting ntfs is very problematical, and despite recent advances 
in the ntfs drivers, Red Hat won't support even read-only ntfs mounts. 
In a future release, this will probably change, but Red Hat doesn't want 
to deal with the "You ate my partition!" reports Mandrake is probably 
getting.

> I have a second PC at home which also has Win XP on it and I
> can mount fine, however it is using a FAT32 rather then NTFS file
> system.

Yep, FAT32/VFAT is fully supported.

> Stephen Connor

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