[TriLUG] Linux NTFS network shares

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Michael Ham wrote:

> Anyway, I am wondering if there is some roundabout way that an NTFS
> partition, mounted in Linux, could be used with full write capabilities
> if it were made a network drive in Windows.

Let's see if I understand your question...

You have a filesystem on a windows machine and you want to 
mount it on your linux box so that it appears as a regular 
rw disk on your linux box (eg as if it were nfs mounted from 
another machine).

If so, yes. You need your linux box to run samba and you 
then smb mount the filesystem on the windows box. (You have 
to setup sharing on the windows box).

According to a posting I got here a few weeks ago, samba has 
three components, samba-client, samba-core and samba-server 
(when I look at samba I just see one application - samba) 
and it would appear that you only need samba-client and 
samba-core.

I did a windows project this way using vi on the files on 
the windows box from my linux box, with its multiple screens 
and normal development tools. When I needed to test the 
program, I would just reach over to the windows box and 
click on the program. At first I tried the cygwin tools on 
the windows box, and they helped a lot, but still having 
only one screen on the windows box and having to use the 
mouse all the time to get anywhere on the windows box drove 
me nuts. The windows box didn't seem to mind having all the 
files with unix carriage control.

Joe

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