[plug] Mount Permisions

[David White]

Thanks all. I would update to woody but don't have an adsl connection. also 
I'm farly new to debian so would like to get used to it for a bit.
Tim
p.s. David is my dad, but thats ok.
At 10:04 26/06/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Paul Dean wrote:
>
> > Hya Tim,
> >
> > First question, Do you want the drive to be in 'ro' mode?
> > If so then change your fstab file 'ntfs' to 'smbfs'. If you don't then
> > change 'ro' to 'rw' as well.
> > You can use samba to mount a drive and read/write to it what ever the
> > winblows file system format is.
> > This means that you will need at lest samba-client installed.
>
>Are you sure?
>I'm pretty sure that samba is a network suite and can't access ntfs directly
>on the same host.  It can't sahre ntfs filesystems out from MS box to a Linux
>box but that's not appropriate here as David lists the device as "/dev/hda1"
>It's clearly local.
>
>David, You may like to update your system to woody and a 2.4 kernel as the
>NTFS support is much improved there.
>
>Yours Tony
>
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