From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 20 12: 6: 3 2002 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 127FB37B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:06:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from ens1.eatel.net (www.premier.net [209.124.203.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7804C43E8A for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:06:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matbranyon@eatel.net) Received: from [192.168.0.158] (mls-1.emgsrus.com [209.124.196.1]) by ens1.eatel.net (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id gAKK5loL003967; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:05:48 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Putting home directories on mounted windows network drive From: Mat Branyon To: adaml@visimation.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <002a01c290cd$71326a20$6400000a@5adam5> References: <002a01c290cd$71326a20$6400000a@5adam5> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 20 Nov 2002 14:05:57 -0600 Message-Id: <1037822759.1462.5.camel@burner> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can put a larger hard drive into the machine, as long as you make the root/boot partition under the first two gigs. although your bios doesn't support large hard-drives, freebsd does. as far as i can tell, freebsd just doesnt get the hard drive info from teh bios. i had a 40 gig hard drive in an old compaq 166mhz pentium mmx. never had a problem with it. you can also mount the ntfs partitions via samba or nfs, whichever you would rather use. when you share a filesystem over the network, to my understanding, file permissions are handled via smb or nfs protocol, of which both freebsd windows can share. --mat --mat On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 13:45, Adam Lofstedt wrote: > Hi (Please CC any responses to me, as I get the digest version) > > Right now my FBSD firewall box is also my lightly-used ftp server with > chrooted ftp users. An old machine (P133, 1.8 G Hard Drive) just got > freed up, and I would like to move the ftp services over to that old > thing. The problem is the Hard Disk is real small, and the board won't > support a larger one. I do have plenty of space on several windows > machines (NTFS) partitions, and was wondering if I could just mount an > NTFS network partition on the FTP box, and store the User's Home > directories on that Partition. Do you see anything wrong with this > approach? How are permissions handled (a mix of NTFS and UNIX > permissions?)? Can you even mount a networked windows drive in FBSD > (using Samba I guess)? > > Thanks for any advice! > > Adam > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message