2009/8/27 Michael Heydon <micha...@jaswin.com.au> > > 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!! >>> >> My theory is that it has to do with the capabilities of the file system. > Samba is presenting a FS that has ownership and permission capabilities, > Windows only knows of one FS that supports those capabilities, therefore it > must be NTFS.
But I think windows NTFS supports ownership and permission that is different from the samba's, am I right? How do they correspond? > > I doubt it has any real effect, it's not like Windows will try to run > chkdsk on it or anything. I don't know if there is any effect or not. > > 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. >> > The client should really see it as a SMB or CIFS volume rather than NTFS. > > 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. >> > I would have said it was closer to exporting an ext3 FS over NFS and the > client reporting that it is reiser. > > *Michael Heydon - IT Administrator * > micha...@jaswin.com.au <mailto:micha...@jaswin.com.au> > > > -- > 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