Re: [expert] make NTFS visible and writable by users

2002-11-30 Thread Woody Green
Add the umask option. umask modifies the virtual (ntfs does not support UNIX style permissions) permission bits in inverse octal form. eg: Where read+execute would be 5 in chmod, in umask it is 2 (7-5). The first number specifies the owning user's permissions, the second, owning group, the

RE: [expert] make NTFS visible and writable by users

2002-11-28 Thread Kenneth Walker
Does this apply to smbmount to a shared NT4 machine ? I'm using LM8.1 I've been Tar'in files to it but am not sure if its ntfs or Fat, but i'm now gonna ask. NO! Do NOT mount it rw. ntfs support in Linux is only read capable. If you attempt to write to it, you will damage your ntfs

Re: [expert] make NTFS visible and writable by users

2002-11-28 Thread Lars Nordin
To answer several questions, the NTFS read problem only applies when the disk is attached to the system as a normal disk (i.e. via IDE, SCSI (and may be even a SAN)) and not over the network. Think of it this way, when you export a filesystem via samba do the clients care that the underlying

Re: [expert] make NTFS visible and writable by users

2002-11-28 Thread Ray Warren
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:50:24PM +, Kenneth Walker wrote: Does this apply to smbmount to a shared NT4 machine ? When You use smbmount You are actually talking to the operating system on the other box which does the actual disk writes,so it doesn't matter whether the other system is using

Re: [expert] make NTFS visible and writable by users

2002-11-28 Thread Azrael
Anyone able to tell me how to make the ntfs partitions visible to all users? thanks -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).'

Re: [expert] make NTFS visible and writable by users

2002-11-28 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 07:11, Lars Nordin wrote: To answer several questions, the NTFS read problem only applies when the disk is attached to the system as a normal disk (i.e. via IDE, SCSI (and may be even a SAN)) and not over the network. Think of it this way, when you export a filesystem

[expert] make NTFS visible and writable by users

2002-11-27 Thread Azrael
This is my fstab: /dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/bootwindows ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,ro 0 0 /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto

Re: [expert] make NTFS visible and writable by users

2002-11-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Azrael wrote on Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:26:26PM + : could anyone tell me how to make my NTFS partitions visible to all users (or at least 1 specific user), and writable by at least root. am guessing changing 'ro' to 'rw' does makes them

Re: [expert] make NTFS visible and writable by users

2002-11-27 Thread James Sparenberg
Todd, Question on this one ... In Samba if I share there, do I run into the same limitations. In other words if I samba mount a directory that is shared via a lose2k or or any other ntfs do I have the same rw restrictions or am I ok in this case? James On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 14:43, Todd

Re: [expert] make NTFS visible and writable by users

2002-11-27 Thread Azrael
I was under the belief that NTFS was writable under linux, and that it simply required a scandisk under windows, not that it actually did any real damage. Still.. writing isn't as important as it being readable to users.. how do I do that? Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-