Mounting a NTFS partition

[iSeriesCodePoet]

Is it possible to mount a NTFS file system through SAMBA? I just converted from running Windows 2000 to Caldera Server. Then what would be a recommended format so if I decide to have the need of a dual boot config I can access the files both ways Windows and Linux FAT32? Mike Wills
AS400 Programmer

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

You can mount a ntfs partition natively although the write support has lots of caveats with it :

/sbin/modprobe ntfs
mount /dev/hda1 -t ntfs -o ro /mnt/ntfs

(where /dev/hda1 is an example of a target ntfs partition and /mnt/ntfs is a pre-existing mount point - create as mkdir /mnt/ntfs is necessary).

On samba, if the ntfs partition is on a windows server its all transparent because the smb (server message block) protocol is used which is the same irresepective of the underlying 'real' filesystem.

However, if you mean to host a ntfs partition on a linux samba server, that can be done but the write support is still described as 'experimental' so I wouldn't think its much use for a production system!

Hope this helps