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lost:
quote:Originally posted by dbl221:
Has anyone been able to mount an NTFS partition to Linux?????
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I have, its rather quite simple. Just make sure to stay away from writing to the Filesystem. They werent kidding when they said highly experimental. Learned that one the hard way i guess.
voidmain:
I mount NTFS with good success but I do it read-only. I don't know about Mandrake but RedHat ships you a kernel without NTFS support turned on at all so you have to recompile (probably want to go ahead and just get a later kernel). I also include the kernel patches that let me do ACLs.
On a non-NTFS related (but Samba related) note. With ACL support and the 2.2 version of Samba (or above, I recommend 2.3) I can make my Linux/Samba servers really act like an NT Server Domain Member (or even a PDC) on the network. NT Domain users can log on to my Linux boxes with their NT domain ID/Passwords. And you can set owner/group permissions to NT Domain user/groups in addition to the normal UNIX user/groups. And with ACLs you can apply much more granular security than you can with just the "rwxrwxrwx user group" permissions. And if you connect to my Samba servers with an NT/2000 client you can right click on a file/directory and set NT permissions just like you can on an NT server. And I even have it set up so you can create shares on my Linux boxes using NT's SRVMGR.EXE (although you can only currently set share level permissions by adding the share from the UNIX side by editing the smb.conf or using swat).
[ March 08, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
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