[lug] mount NTFS

[j davis]

some linux distros  also has a very nice smb finding tool built in...
  findsmb
jd


>From: Tony Dyson <the_anorak at worldnet.att.net>
>Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>Subject: Re: [lug] mount NTFS
>Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 10:29:06 -0600
>
>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
>
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thanks,
jd

jd at taproot.bz
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