samba - Apr 2004 - How to share WIN partitions from SAMBA (Dual boot) Srvrto WIN clients?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Malcolm Baldridge [mailto:google@paypc.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 9:02 AM
> To: samba@lists.samba.org
> Subject: RE: [Samba] How to share WIN partitions from SAMBA 
> (Dual boot)
> Srvrto WIN clients?
> 
> 
> [Replying to list]
> 
> Quoting George Peters <wombat53@optonline.net>:
> 
> > Malcolm - thanks for the prompt reply.
> > I don't think I am trying to share a remote smbmounted 
> file. Rather, I
> > AM trying to share a LOCAL  (and presumably MOUNTed) WIN partition.
> 
> OK.
> 
> > Why am I doing this? On my home network, the WIN client 
> runs WIN apps 
> > like MS OUTLOOK that share one common OUTLOOK data file 
> (one user at a 
> > time) with my "server" WINXP machine. I want to have this 
> box in Linux
> > mode (not WIN).
> 
> You don't have many options then.
> 
> 1) If you're stuck with using NTFS, you can only use 
> read-only mode. Make
There _is_ a write-read ntfs driver available for Linux. It's
called Captive. I've not tested it myself. So I can only inform.

There's a few Live-Cds which does provide that driver. (it uses 
NT's native ntoskrnl and ntfs.sys as a wrapper) 

BitDefender based on Knoppix Has that, but unfortunately, I've 
not gotten round to testing it.

> There _is_ a write-read ntfs driver available for Linux. It's
> called Captive. I've not tested it myself. So I can only inform.
Yes, I know.  But it's dangerous to actually use, and can only be safely
used to overwrite files of exactly the same size, which has been used by
various Windows 2000/NT "Administrator Password Reset" tools.

It's *NOT* safe to use for writing/creating files the way you would normally
expect read/write support to work.

YOU WILL CORRUPT YOUR NTFS VOLUME!

=R=