Wrtie to NTFS partition Samba

gentoobobby · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 293

Hi having abit of a problem
I am creating a samba file server and would like to no if it is possible for me to have my backup solution writing to an NTFS partition on a removable usb drive as the cleint needs to be able to take this home with them . Any sultions would be great

msalerno · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:29 pm Post subject:

Samba is used for accessing windows shares across a network. A linux system can mount and write to an NTFS partition, but it's highly advised against. If you didn't compile NTFS support into your kernel or as a module, you will need to go to your kernel and enable NTFS support.

This external drive will be attached to which system?

If the drive is going to be connected to the linux system, I guess FAT would be the easiest option. Once again, check your kernel.

gentoobobby · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 293

Thanks for you reply be waiting all day for one of these really dont no what to do

I reccomend fat to my boss as i no this works but as our clients are using the usb backup to take home. The drive would be plugged into the linux server as we write backups to it during the day . The clients need to be able to take the harddirve home and plug into there widnows machines this is why i thought ntfs would be better.

Also how big can fat go ?

msalerno · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:00 pm Post subject:

Google is your friend my friend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table

gentoobobby · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 293

Thats fine thanks for ur help although im a little stuck still as my boss is to keen on using ntfs , I can try persuade him to use fat but i dont understand stuff unless i get it explained to me in such a simple way , But hey im getting there and and thanks for ur help

msalerno · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:44 pm Post subject:

No problem.

What you need to ask your boss is why he prefers NTFS. Sure there are plenty of reasons to use NTFS over FAT, but security is not an issue in this case since the SID's would be useless.

Further reading and searching these forums for "ntfs write"
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-111437-highlight-write+ntfs.html
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-410926-highlight-write+ntfs.html

gentoobobby · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 293

Because he wants the clients to plug it into there windows machines at home , I said we can use fat but i read the allocation tbale thing and i seem to think it can only go up to 4 gig , But i sewar at home i made my music drive into a 120 gb fat and its working although im not sure it was fat i think it was .

thanks for your help appricate it

msalerno · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:49 pm Post subject:

According to wikipedia, the max partition size is 2tb and the max filesize is 4gb.

So your home music drive probably was 120gb.

gentoobobby · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 293

hey man thanks alot i will now do some conving and post back my results