2009/8/27 John H Terpstra - Samba Team <j...@samba.org> > On 08/26/2009 08:58 PM, Jonathon Doran wrote: > > 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. > > > > 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. > > Please refer to the man page for smb.conf. Look up the parameter "fstype". >
fstype (S) This parameter allows the administrator to configure the string that specifies the type of filesystem a share is using that is reported by smbd (8) <http://sepp.oetiker.ch/samba-3.0.23c-to/help/manpages/smbd.8.html> when a client queries the filesystem type for a share. The default type is NTFSfor compatibility with Windows NT but this can be changed to other strings such as Samba or FAT if required. Default: *fstype = NTFS * Example: *fstype = Samba * When I set fstype = FAT32 in smb.conf, it can show "FAT32" file system in the Windows side. It's the right result, thanks John T!! > - John T. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > -- 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