[H-GEN] Getting Samba to read NTFS partitions

[James C. McPherson]

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On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:22:36 +1000 Stephen Connor <sconnor at austarnet.com.au> 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. 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'. 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.


Stephen,
the obvious question:

With your redhat installtion, do you have the ntfs module compiled in
or available to you as a loadable module?

>From your description (which is pretty bare btw!) it sounds like
Mandrake already has the module compiled in or in the list of modules
which are loaded at boot time/on demand, whereas the RedHat install
doesn't.



James C. McPherson
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