Re: [SLE] Need file share help!

On Wednesday 19 July 2006 23:48, Basil Chupin wrote:
stephan beal wrote:
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 03:38, Basil Chupin wrote:
Any Samba hints would also be appreciated.

Cannot help out with samba but re the formatting- to share either use
Fat16 or, better, FAT32. Linux can read ntfs but cannot (yet) write
to it.

Linux *can* write to ntfs (for many years it couldn't), but it's
"generally not recommended".

Some links:

http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
http://bisqwit.iki.fi/story/howto/ntfs/
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/

If it is only in the experimental stage then it is not a useful thing to
tell someone who is probably a 'newbie' to format a partition in NTFS to
be used in Linux. When you install SuSE it creates any NTFS partitions
in fstab as "read only"; if linux could write to NTFS then there would
not be this limitation.

Cheers.
Desiderius Erasmus

Greetings,

I would like to thank everyone for replying. Here is the final outcome.
I created a FAT32 partition for sharing with Windows. I mount the partition
with the following fstab options.

auto,exec,uid=1001,gid=100,umask=0000 1 2

This allows my XP user to write to it, even though a root process mounted it.

As for configuring SAMBA, I found a good writeup on setting up a local area
net containing Window and Linux machines, specifically suse 10.1. Here is
the url, should anyone else need assistance.

http://www.tweakhound.com/linux/samba/page_1.htm

The title is:
How To Samba With Suse 10.1 And Windows XP
by Eric Vaughan.

Mike



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