Glenn Satchell wrote: >> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:41:03 -0600 >> From: Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> >> >> Mark Logan wrote: >>> That is a really cool tool. It runs on Windows and creates an NFS server >>> providing access for a separate Solaris machine to the NTFS on the >>> Windows machine. FUSE and ntfsprogs run on Solaris and provide >>> read/write access to local disks. >>> Mark >> From the webpage: >> >> mount-ntfs is a tool that allows mounting NTFS partitions read-only >> under Solaris > > and a little lower down it says: > > Mount-ntfs > > Theory of operation > > Mount-ntfs is a tool that allows mounting NTFS partitions or > file system image files read-only under Solaris. > > To do so the tool provides an NFS network file server that > takes its data from an NTFS partition or from an image file > instead of taking it from a "real" (mounted) file system. > > Then the network share is mounted using mount_nfs. > >> ...and there are Solaris binaries. All I have to do is extract the >> binary to my ~/bin directory, and then as root, I can run it to mount >> local partitions and read them. >> >> Perhaps you were thinking of 'ufsread' ? > > err, once you read the full description, Mark's statement is correct.
Mark said "It runs on Windows and creates an NFS server" which implied that you had to have run it on a separate Windows system or that it required Windows to work. Neither of those is true. I was trying to make it clear that you do not need Windows or a separate Windows system to use mount-ntfs. You download a *solaris* binary and run it under *solaris* and you can access *local* (not networked) NTFS partitions *without* a separate or *windows* system. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
