Resolved XP accessing ntfs partion in samba server

[Barry Yu]

Tim wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 07:58 -0800, Barry Yu wrote:
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>>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,
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>A remote access as root isn't the same as being root on that machine (if
>you configure things in a safe manner).  This may be a cause of your
>problems.
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>>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?
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>Connect via SSH to the machine the drive is on, and operate on it
>(almost) directly.  Don't try and share out stuff as root, then try and
>use them as root on a remote mount (it opens you up to a lot of
>problems, not to mention that you're fighting against some common setup
>options that don't allow it).
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>> 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.
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>You would need to mount something in a particular way to enable more
>access (though be warned, that's a very bad idea).  Once mounted, you
>wouldn't be able to change permissions to be more permissible than the
>mount settings.
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Tks for hiliting security issue - I am still very new to Linux 
especially in security and networking area.