-----Original Message-----
From: John D. <jdii1215@comcast.net>
To: slug@nks.net <slug@nks.net>
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 12:34 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Question
>diego henao wrote:
>>
>> Sir, I know some things about fstab. I want you to read the email again.
>> First at all, there are two different machines. Second, my windows xp is
>> not running in fat, it is running in NTFS.
>>
>> Thanks Diego
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net] On Behalf Of Logan
>> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 7:22 PM
>> To: SLUG
>> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Question
>>
>> On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 21:30, Diego Henao wrote:
>> > Hello everybody. I want to ask you about something that I have not
>> tried in
>> > Linux. I have Redhat Linux 7.3 as a server and windows xp as a client.
>> What I
>> > want to do is to share some information in my xp and use this shared
>> folders
>> > in my server to be in my FTP, therefore people on internet, they will
>> be able
>> > to download whatever they need. I know it is posible in windows 2000
>> server.
>> >
>> > In the other hand, I want to do this becouse my biggest hard drive is
>> in my
>> > windows Xp, therefore I have almost all my files in that hard disk.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions.
>> >
>> > Thanks a lot for read this
>> >
>> > Diego
>>
>> As root, make a mount point on your linux partition, such as:
>> mkdir /msdos
>>
>> then,
>>
>> mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 (or hdawhatever your c: partition is) /msdos
>>
>> unless you are using SCSI drives then you would want:
>>
>> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 (or hdawhatever your c: partition is) /msdos
>>
>> This will allow you to access your Windoze partition via Linux.
>>
>> To make this automatically happen you need to edit your fstab. More
>> info is available in by typing at the linux prompt:
>>
>> man fstab
>>
>> Even more clarity to your perplexity may be resolved by browsing here:
>> http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-10/newbies_03.html
>>
>> The Logan
>> --
>> 10:15pm up 1 day, 17:49, 1 user, load average: 0.21, 0.18, 0.11
>> Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. --
>> Mark Twain
>> Registered Linux User 277656 ICQ 72101412
>/msdos is FAT8 or FAT12, readable by XP, 2000, Linux, Unix, most BSDs,
>etc. It is another way of running floppy format data on a HD.
>
>FAT type is FAT16, which would be my personal favorite. Right now, as
>far as I know, NTFS 5 and up are not supported fully for WRITE ability
>except on a formal network. The temporary kludge is to use FAT in one of
>its variants as a partition on on a common space on the FTP server
>(which can be either machine)-- FAT16 is used for longer file name
>support than would older plain FAT. FAT32 (vfat) is "alpha" on some
>kernels now in use as far as write goes, partly because the long file
>naming is different than the Unix approach. Samba knows NT 4 journalling
>structures reasonably well, but not so well does it do NT 5.0 or up
>writes that the other end will not consider junk due to invalid
>journalling info(Microsoft does not openly pub its journalling specs in
>detail, so software dev has to feel its way in part and reverse engineer
>in other parts). XP Pro will work on a network, except for journalling
>info passon-- to keep date and time file data in pure sync as it travels
>(this is the core of why both NT and 2000 got retro patched in large
>part as journalling in NTFS developed). With FTP, this timing
>maintainance can be an issue, so usually a commonly addressable file
>system is used as the easiest fix-- older is more common.
>
>John.
The one thing is though NTFS on NT. 4.0 Service Pack 4 is the same NTFS as
2000 and Xp Professional.
Prior version of NTFS on Nt 4.0 SP 3 or less is the same as NTFS from NT 3x
series.
As for Fat , Fat 16 or Fat 32 there is no good security so sharing a Fat
directory would not be a good Ideal.
How ever Fat is much faster. Just no way to Secure it From any version of
Windows even Nt 4.0 , 2000, or Xp Pro.
That is why they also brought out Directory Services which was a take off
from Novell. How ever to use Directory services again Nt 4.0 SP4 , 2000 or
XP Pro on a NTFS partition only so on a Fat Partition it can do nothing for
security on the Windows Side!
I think though from what the person wanted to know is a way to share through
the Linux side on a different machine on a different
drive and to allow sharing through FTP to people to access files and etc.,
If Samba has a problem with NTFS from 2000 and XP which he said he has then
even if he had NTFS on Nt 4.0 Sp4 or up to 6 it would still have the same
problems.
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