[plug] Read write access to Win2K disks

John Knight anarchist_tomato at hotmail.com
Fri Jan 10 11:07:47 WST 2003


There's experimental writing support, you'll probably need to re-compile 
your kernel though. Experimental drivers are DANGEROUS, so use at your own 
risk (although I believe that Mandrake uses it, but that's only going from 
what a mate told me).

red-round-one

Make lunch, not war.


>
>On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Derek Fountain wrote:
>
> > I have some data on a Win2K machine. I've set the directory up as a 
>share and
> > I can mount it on SuSE8.1 using smbmount. It seems to mount read-only. 
>How
> > can I tell that for sure, and how can I mount it read/write? Adding 
>",rw" to
> > the -o parameter string doesn't make any difference.
>
>I don't think there is write support for NTFS in a 2.4 series kernel.
>
>Could be wrong tho.
>



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