[TriLUG] recommendations for mounting NTFS shares under Linux

[Mike McLean]

I haven't played with Win2K at all, but can't you just use smbmount on
the linux box to mount the shared filesystem on the Win2K server?

Geoffrey Douglas Purdy wrote:
> 
> Here's some basic info on the problem I'm trying to solve.  I'd
> appreciate any recommendations.  I *think* this  should be pretty
> straightforward, but I suspect there are a lot of  different ways to go
> about doing this and I'd like to determine which is best without a lot of
> trial and error.
> 
> We have a scientific instrument generates a bunch of files and stores them
> in an NTFS share on a Win2K file server.  These files are subsequently analyzed
> by an application running on a RH7.1 server.  Basically I'm looking for a better way to
> share files between the NT and Linux systems than FTP'ing them across
> and which meets the following criteria:
> 
> - robust enough to require minimal attention
> - must not modify case of characters (i.e.  doesn't convert UC to LC)
> - allows file and directory names greater than 32 characters (up to
> maybe 64?)
> - doesn't choke on oddball characters allowed in Win2K filenames (not a
> hard requirement, but would be nice)
> 
> One solution which comes to mind is to have the instrument dump the data
> files directly to a Samba share on the Linux box.  However, I'd like to
> avoid this because it might create instrument vendor tech support issues.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> Geoff
> 
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