Re: Newbie Question(s)

From: WrkWatchr (Wrkwatchr_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:25:00 GMT

What I am wanting to do is have the Linux box serve as a file
server/Internet gateway (DHCP server) where files can be read and written
for the various local computers. I have no need for an FTP or Webserver
setup...as I understand the answers, this virtually mandates that the drive
be in native Linux format - correct?

Roy

"Jim Bowering" <iambat@otvcablelandot.net> wrote in message
news:4069b34e$0$32591$2c56edd9@news.cablerocket.com...
> WrkWatchr wrote:
>
> > Tim/Siliviu,
> >
> > OK..lemme get this straight....While I can set up the server with NTFS
> > drives in it and I am assuming that users logging in from NTFS (i.e.
W2K)
> > boxes, would be able to see and read from those drives, but even tho
they
> > are NTFS talking (i.e. reading NTFS) because it is on a Linux-based
server,
> > the ability to write to those drives is questionable at best. Therefore,
my
> > best course of action is to use a W2K box to move everything important
to a
> > NTFS/FAT drive in a W2K box, put in a clean drive into the Linux-based
> > server, format and partition it under Linux, then copy/move the data to
the
> > newly formatted Linux formatted drives?
> >
> > Assuming this is true, and I am beginning to understand it is, all my
> > efforts to avoid wiping and reformatting the drives is for naught and I
need
> > to take the plunge and do the deed and move/reformat/and set up a
> > clean/naked server ready to accept data and files from the other user
boxes-
> > correct?
> >
> > Roy
> >
> >
> > "tim wunder" <twunder@REMOVEcomcast.net> wrote in message
> > news:kVfac.5$n62.1357@news.abs.net...
> >> On 3/30/2004 9:24 AM, I believe that Silviu Minut wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 01:26:59 +0000, WrkWatchr wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >>Silviu,
> >> >>
> >> >>I received this input from another newgroup and it works (at least
from
> > the
> >> >>root). I don't understand why it works, but I can see the directories
on
> > the
> >> >>NTFS drive. I still can't see it from the USER login, but at least I
can
> >> >>from the root...making progress...
> >> >>
> >> >>Roy
> >> >>
> >> >> This may be a permission issue.
> >> >>
> >> >> Try this at a command prompt:
> >> >> # su root
> >> >> Password:
> >> >> # mkdir /mnt/windows
> >> >> # mount -t ntfs /dev/hdxx /mnt/windows
> >> >> [where hdxx is the ntfs harddisk/partition]
> >> >> # lsmod | grep "ntfs"
> >> >> ntfs 53760 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> >> >> [or similar]
> >> >> # ls /mnt/windows
> >> >>
> >> >>With any luck you'll see no error messages and the last command will
> >> >>list the contents of the ntfs partition.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > But as Tim said, for the time being you won't be able to write to
> >> > ntfs. I believe in windows (or with partition magic?) you can
> >> > convert ntfs to fat. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
> >> >
> >>
> >> But the *important* thing is that if he wants the data on the drive(s)
> >> to be served via samba to other Windows users on his network, then the
> >> data should be stored on a native linux filesystem. It appears he's
> >> jumping through hoops to get read/write access to these NTFS drives,
but
> >> it'll all be for naught.
> >>
> >> Roy's best course of action, if he needs the data from thes drives, is
> >> to copy the data to a backup medium of his choice (tape/CD/DVD/other
> >> HD), install the drive(s) on the linux server, format it/them with the
> >> journalling filesystem of his choice (ext3, XFS, or reiserFS), create
> >> some samba shares and then restore the data to those samba shares.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Tim
>
> Pardon me. If you're only serving data to the network, you shouldn't need
to
> worry whether NTFS is read-write, should you? Set the share read only.

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