[H-GEN] Getting Samba to read NTFS partitions

[Tony Nugent]

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On Mon Mar 24 2003 at 09:50, Robert Kearey wrote:

> 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.

If you are feeling foolhardy enough to try it, then:

	http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html

They say that their modules have never caused problems, I have never
needed to use them, yyvm.  These modules are compiled for read-only
access only.

> > Stephen Connor

> Rob K - Ich mag Chips mit brauner So=DFe

Cheers
Tony

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