A week ago I encountered a problem in accessing ntfs partition in samba
server from remote XP, after quite some searching with google, finally
resolved access denial by adding a line in /etc/fstab;
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/ntfs ntfs defaults,ro,umask=000 0 0
Before I added the line in fstab, the scenario is I can access samba
server ntfs partition locally without problem, but when a remote XP
tried to access ntfs partition in samba server got denied. ls -l /mnt
I foune that ;
drwxr-xr-x fat32
dr-x------ ntfs ( After added a line in fstab as above, it
reads dr-xr-xr-x)
It is obvious that group and other users just don't have any file
permission at all.
I tried chmod a+r /mnt/ntfs but I got "Read-only file system" and
can't alter the file permission, seems the only way to make this ntfs
partition in samba server open to remote XP for access is adding a line
in fstab as above, is there any other way in command line I can use to
change the file permission of that ntfs partition? I tried 2 and none of
them succeed;
umask 0000
ln -s /mnt/ntfs /mnt/test (And I added the /mnt/test into the
smb.conf, restarted the service smb, but still got access denial).
