On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:26:10 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have a dual-boot system with win 2000 and fedora FC3 > of which I want to have FC3 as my default and I want to > make the NTFS partitions available for writable SMB shares. > > As I understand it, the write danger comes in when someone > as a fedora user tries to write into a write-mounted NTFS > partition using the NTFS drivers. But what is not clear, > is if there is any danger from creating a Samba write-sharing > of a mounted-write NTFS partition via Fedora. Well, I can't really see the difference between the two scenarios: in the first one, the danger is caused by a user directly logged on the system trying to write into the NTFS partition. In the second one the user will use a a samba share, hence the user accessing the NTFS is the one running the samba server (probably root), but to me this makes zero difference. The danger is exactly the same. I think the best option is to copy everything from the NTFS to the linux partition and make the smb shares from that. Cheers
