2009/8/27 Jonathon Doran <j...@doransw.com> > Quoting Sallow Yang <sallow.y...@gmail.com>: > > Hi, >> >> The following are my steps: >> 1. Insert a FAT32 format HDD into usb port of Linux PC. >> 2. After HDD mounted successfully, configure and start samba to share the >> HDD. >> 3. Using Map Network Drive of Windows XP to map the HDD to a windows >> network >> drive. >> 4.Open the mapped network drive, can see "NTFS" file system on the left >> details. >> >> It shows the wrong info, could anybody help me? >> Thanks in advance!! >> > > Samba allows a directory your Linux box to appear to be an NTFS volume. > That is its purpose. It really doesn't matter what the original filesystem > is: you can export an ext3 filesystem, ext4, xfs, FAT32... whatever the > original filesystem is, the Samba clients (for example your XP machine) will > see it as an NTFS volume. > Why samba has this purpose? I think it shows right info that can make user more clearly.
Is the display error easy to be fixed by samba? > > This isn't really all that different (in my opinion) from the way that NFS > will make directories appear as NFS volumes. It didn't matter what the > original filesystem was in that case either. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > Thanks for your reply! -- Best Regards, Sallow Yang -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
