[lug] mount NTFS

[Mr Viggy]

The Windows version has that option.  There are two options, "host" 
conenction only, or "full network connection".  The first one installs a 
"dummy" network adapter, that your VM can only see the host machine 
with.  The second option basically allows your VM to participate on the 
network, as if it were it's own machine (well, I guess it is, when you 
think about it)!

Viggy

Tony Dyson wrote:
> Good adavice. Stick to SMB mounts. When you installed VMWare, did it 
> offer you an option to enable access to the local file system? VMWare 
> for Linux does; I haven't used the Windows version.
> 
> There's a handy tool at http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/ for quickly 
> finding out what SMB shares you can "see" on your network.
> 
> Mr Viggy wrote:
> 
>> Read only is good, because AFAIK, NTFS write is still experimental.
>>
>> Now, as far as VMWare goes, depending on how you setup your VMWare 
>> "disk" you can't directly mount your hard drive.  For example, if you 
>> setup a "virtual disk" on your NTFS drive, you need to treat your RH 
>> VMWare installation as a seperate machine on your network.  So, in 
>> order to mount your NTFS file system, you actually need to use Samba, 
>> or the 'smbfs' filesystem.  Which is actually better!  Why?  Because, 
>> like I said, NTFS write is still experimental and can screw up your disk!
>>
>> OTOH, if you install RH on the same hard drive as your Windows OS, but 
>> you boot directly into it, you would need to use the NTFS file system 
>> to mount it; because the file system is on the same harddrive as the OS.
>>
>> Think of VMWare's virtual disk as if it were a completely different 
>> system on a network connected to your host system.
>>
>> So, to make a long story short, check out Samba, and the smbfs file 
>> system.
>>
>> Viggy
>>
>>
>> luke p wrote:
>>
>>> How do I mount an NTFS partition in RH 7.3? Is there something unique 
>>> I need to set up before I can just use the mount command? Also, can 
>>> it be mounted when its active, i.e. I'm in Windows (XP) already, 
>>> using VMware to boot Linux (on a dual boot machine) so from within 
>>> Linux under Vmware mount the NTFS partition? (At most I only need to 
>>> have read ability).
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Luke
>>
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Web Page:  http://lug.boulder.co.us
> Mailing List: http://lists.lug.boulder.co.us/mailman/listinfo/lug
> Join us on IRC: lug.boulder.co.us port=6667 channel=#colug
> 
> .
>