Tim wrote:
On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 22:28 -0800, Barry Yu wrote:
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.
Do you really want it that way? In my case, I have a FAT32 drive, and I
set dmask=0077 & fmask=0177, with gid=tim & uid=tim so I got:
drwx------ tim tim for directories, and
-rw------- tim tim for files
I didn't want other users being able to access files, nor any accidental
execution of files (it also makes a mess when you copy a text file from
Windows to Linux, it stupidly becomes an executable script file). If
you give away access to other users, they can do what they like, and I'd
think that ownership of things would get screwed up.
I'd imagine you'd want something similar for NTFS, but not one
particular user and group ID owning all files. I'd imagine you'd want
the same owners of files on the two different systems (e.g. user John on
Linux is user John on Windows, maintaining their ownership between
them).
Perhaps I didn't make my point clear enough, the situation is even when
I log in as root into samba server, I can access the ntfs partition, but
when I try to access the same ntfs partition from remote XP machine even
under the root account (I create this root account for test), I got
access denial unless I add a line " /dev/hdb5 /mnt/ntfs ntfs
defaults,ro,umask=000 0 0" in /etc/fstab, my question is : 1) How can an
administrator (such as root) access this ntfs partition in samba server
from remote XP machine when there is a need? 2) Is adding umask 000 in
/etc/fstab the only way to open ntfs access for remote XP machine, I
can't find the way in shell environment to do that yet.
