[H-GEN] Getting Samba to read NTFS partitions

[Tony Nugent]

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On Wed Mar 26 2003 at 20:23, Tony Nugent wrote:

> > 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.

Today I have been working on a box (not mine) that has w2k/ntfs on
it... as it turns out, knoppix has the ntfs module available (again,
read only).  It seems to work ok (but I don't really want to push my
luck too far :)

Cheers
Tony

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