Szabolcs Szakacsits
2007-Jun-02 12:26 UTC
[Samba] Re: [Bulk] Trying to mount a Linux share on Windows
> > > You can mount Linux file systems on Windows you just have to have the > > > right utilities to do so. Linux supports NTFS (NTVFS is another > > > matter) with ntfs-3g now. > > > > So for instance, I could take a partition on a Windows server (NTFS) > > and share it using Samba instead of the Windows share service? > > You could probably make it work, but that would be insane.Many dual booters do it, so their peers can't notice if they are using Windows or Linux, read/write works just fine. But I also wouldn't recommend it for servers since ntfs-3g isn't optimized yet. Nevertheless some people still use it on servers. We've met only one problem half year ago when ActiveSync didn't work with small files because Samba 4 incorrectly marked them as sparse. Luckily we could find a workaround for the issue in ntfs-3g which is included in the ntfs-3g stable releases. Regards, Szaka