[TriLUG] recommendations for mounting NTFS shares under Linux
Mike McLean
mamclean at eos.ncsu.edu
Tue Oct 23 17:54:05 EDT 2001
I haven't played with Win2K at all, but can't you just use smbmount on
the linux box to mount the shared filesystem on the Win2K server?
Geoffrey Douglas Purdy wrote:
>
> Here's some basic info on the problem I'm trying to solve. I'd
> appreciate any recommendations. I *think* this should be pretty
> straightforward, but I suspect there are a lot of different ways to go
> about doing this and I'd like to determine which is best without a lot of
> trial and error.
>
> We have a scientific instrument generates a bunch of files and stores them
> in an NTFS share on a Win2K file server. These files are subsequently analyzed
> by an application running on a RH7.1 server. Basically I'm looking for a better way to
> share files between the NT and Linux systems than FTP'ing them across
> and which meets the following criteria:
>
> - robust enough to require minimal attention
> - must not modify case of characters (i.e. doesn't convert UC to LC)
> - allows file and directory names greater than 32 characters (up to
> maybe 64?)
> - doesn't choke on oddball characters allowed in Win2K filenames (not a
> hard requirement, but would be nice)
>
> One solution which comes to mind is to have the instrument dump the data
> files directly to a Samba share on the Linux box. However, I'd like to
> avoid this because it might create instrument vendor tech support issues.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Geoff
>
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