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Samba, Windows, file server help

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wewangle

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OK I am sure this is newbie question, forgive me-that is what I am. But I am setting up a file server in my room, so I can access media files throughout my house.

Right now I have Ubuntu loaded on my 120 GB hard drive. Ive had this hard drive for a while and its loaded with my stuff (was using it as an External hard drive, but before I had it with windows). I had it partitioned with 11gb for OS and the rest for media files. So yesterday I decided to set this up with spare parts. I installed Ubuntu EXt3 file system. The other partition is NTFS (110gb). All my other computers in my house are running windows Xp. I have networked it together cearly with samba, I can access and play the media files off the hard drive and what not.

MY question is: can I write to that NTFS partition that is on the Linux box. Thats the problem that I am having. I would like to easily write to it as if it were a share from another Windows Box, if that is possible. If not, other ways?;;

My smb.conf share looks like


[media]
comment = media files
parth = /media/windows
browseable = yes
public = yes
writeable = yes
write list = berg(user I have for the share)

Yesterday is when i first started playing with samba so I just been looking at examples throughout the web. Hopefully someone can guide me, or tell me the answer to my question is, WHAT ARE YOU RETARDED.. Either way Thanks.
 
Linux NTFS write support is still very much incomplete and possibly quite buggy. Kernel NTFS write support has improved lately; I think you can now resize files somewhat safely. There's also the captive-ntfs project, but you'll have to copy the windows ntfs driver over from a windows installation. If you are planning on keeping that drive in the linux box then the best thing to do would be to just convert the NTFS partition to a native linux partition type. I'm not sure if there is a way to convert an NTFS partition in place(without destroying the data) or if you'll have to blast the partition and create a whole new one.

Summary: NTFS write support in linux is not great. Best solution would be to repartition it to a native linux partition type.
 
jpmkm said:
Best solution would be to repartition it to a native linux partition type.
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What I would do. If you have room on another computer to move the media in the 110gb partition to, I would go ahead and do that, format storage partition on file server to ext3, then load it back up onto the file server.
 
Aftering researching I dont like NTFS and Linux working 2gether, as long as there is another way.... Now if I format the NTFS partition to a native linux file system like Ext3, (feeling very newbie) can I then read/write onto using mY windows systems?
 
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