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From: Thomas Connolly <tconnolly@electrosoftsolutions.com>
Organization: Electrosoft Solutions, Inc.
To: anthonyabby@aplusdata.com, <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
Subject: Re: Mounting XP partition
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 16:33:28 -0700
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On Friday 20 December 2002 08:18 am, Anthony Abby wrote:
> Jerry McAllister said:
> >> Hi everyone, me again :)
> >>
> >> I have mounted a ntfs(WinXP) partition on my freebsd box, but i am
> >> unable to write anything to it?
> >
> > My understanding is that is the current state of ntfs support.
> > You can read from, but not write to ntfs slices.  I don't know
> > if writing ability is being worked on.
>
> You can write to... smbfs allows full rw capability.  I run a backup jo=
b
> on my linux/freebsd servers every night and back the resultant tars up =
on
> my windows xp box via smbfs mount.  Works like a charm.
>
> Anthony
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