From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 28 08:39:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FE0E16A41F for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:39:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rbhurtha@gmail.com) Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (uproxy.gmail.com [66.249.92.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EB6143D46 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:39:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rbhurtha@gmail.com) Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o2so502058uge for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 00:39:33 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bH5Bnp99cC7GQi2Mv9W9pNDknw+6ZCdorep8KdLQSSfskGkpIinicekVqlet0++BIdSSCY/E5D8nIgz4uW+rmi+gKAZKAFdfLL4iv88d0aYKhSc1WlbGxJIHAcm3JcJtAuJf5ZV1A/uYiGOdMnmt82n8yZj9l808fa5/fFQAw6Q= Received: by 10.67.22.3 with SMTP id z3mr2546378ugi; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:40:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.66.237.11 with HTTP; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:40:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 07:40:45 +0000 From: Roshan To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051227131407.BA44.GERARD@seibercom.net> <20051227124254.6e3d2301@grokwell.org> <20051227141209.A6D8.GERARD@seibercom.net> <1135753327.21128.11.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> Subject: Re: Quick Install Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:39:35 -0000 On 12/28/05, Roshan wrote: > On 12/28/05, Robert Slade wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 19:18, Gerard Seibert wrote: > > > On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:42:54 PM > > > "Andrew L. Gould" > > > Subject: Re: Quick Install Question > > > Wrote these words of wisdom: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Is the WinXP partition in the same computer that is running FreeBSD= ? Or > > > > is the NTFS partition a shared directory on a separate WinXP comput= er? > > > > (I was not aware that Samba could be used to read NTFS partitions > > > > residing on a FreeBSD computer.) > > > > > > > > The original poster wishes to dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD on the sa= me > > > > computer. > > > > > > > > Andrew Gould > > > > > > > > > ***** REPLY SEPARATOR ***** > > > On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied: > > > > > > Actually, there are three computers. One is running FreeBSD 5.4 and t= he > > > other two have WinXP Pro installed. I networked all three together. T= he > > > WinXP systems are using the NTFS format. Samba can read and write to > > > both of the WinXP machines without any problems. > > > > > > I really do not know if this is germane to a dual boot system however= . > > > It probably is not since WinXP would not actually be running when > > > FreeBSD was in this type of configuration. > > > > > > Fat32 is really a poor file system when compared to NTFS. It is too b= ad > > > that he is unable to get a second machine and use FreeBSD on it inste= ad > > > of dual booting. > > > > > > Just my 2=A2. > > > > Gerhard, > > > > Just to clear up a point. In your case, Samba is not writing to NTFS. i= t > > is handling the communications between the 2 operating systems using th= e > > SMB protocol. The individual OS' handle to filing system input/outputs. > > > > The issue with FreeBSD reading and writing to NTFS directly is > > different. There is a driver that will allow FreeBSD to read NTFS, but > > because of the complexities of NTFS writing to it is dificult and whils= t > > possible can cause the NTFS partition to become unreadable by XP. > > > > For info the best way of setting up dual booting of FreeBSD and XP is t= o > > use 3 partitions, 1 for XP using NTFS, 1 for FreeBSD and a 3rd Fat32 > > partition for data transfer. > > > > Rob > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd= .org" > > Hi everyone. i just want to add a little something to this discussion, about read/write from Windows boxes. You can use mount_smbfs to mount a shared resource from an SMB file server. See 'man mount_smbfs' for more info. Roshan