Re: Networking

Perfect Reign wrote:
> On 30 Nov 2005 02:30:14 +0100, someone posing as mst took a five minute
> break from flipping burgers to boot up the etch-a-sketch and scribbled:
>
>>On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:21:05 -0700 "azTom" <tomaz@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>Any and all suggestions on how to set up a local network through a router
>>>would be greatly appreciated. I currently have 3 computers on XP, while I
>>>realize Linux can not read NT files; I have my data stored in a partition
>>>that is formatted FAT32, I believe Linux can read them? Please correct me
>>>if I'm wrong. With all 3 computers using XP the network and printer sharing
>>>works great.
>>Actually, most Linux distros can READ NTFS filesystems, but
>>writing to them is EXPERIMENTAL.
>
> Though I've not read anything, I've had no issues whatsoever with SAMBA
> writing to NTFS drives. My laptop is always shared with various NT/2K/2K3
> file servers and my local XP machine at work. In addition I commenly share
> my corporate drives from my 9.1 box at home through VPN and read/write with
> no problems.
>

Odds are the local filesystem underneath those Linux shared out areas
via Samba are not NTFS, but rather some fuller supported local
filesystem type like ext3 or reiserfs.

Writing to NTFS requires extra work on SUSE and even then, the project
that allowed for write support is not maintained (?? I think) anymore.
That project used a bit of Windows <cough> files to make things work.

Probably didn't work with 64bit Linux anyhow.
.

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