Can fedora write-mounted NTFS partitions be SMB shared for write?

[Guy Fraser]

Just say no to NTFS writing.

There is no advantage using NTFS for an SMB/CIFS share.

If you want to share data on both operating systems setup
a FAT32 partition in Windows 2000 and mount it under linux 
as 'vfat'. The only time this does not work is when the files 
need to be larger than 4GB or you need the partition to be 
larger than 32GB.

I use FAT32 on external USB2/Firewire Drives in order to share 
the data between; Linux, FreeBSD, Win98+ and MacOS 8+. This 
works well. I have a small case with a 40GB laptop drive and 
have setup a 32GB partition for Music and the rest as a data 
shuttle, so I can take my entire music collection with me. I 
also have a couple of large external drives with NTFS but only 
mount them read-only on Linux and FreeBSD when I need to move 
files larger than 4GB from the WinNT+ machines.

Alternatively for a dual boot system you might want to look 
around for some programs that allow you to transfer files to 
and from an ext2 partition under windows.

Good Luck

On Fri, 2004-24-12 at 16:26 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I have read a number of FAQ's and HOWTO but I have
> not found anything that explains how to do what
> I want and if write support will work in the setup
> fashion I seek.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Can anyone give me any pointers, howtos, faqs, advice?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Dan
>