From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 13:06:02 2004 Return-Path: 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 D2F1316A4CE for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:06:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 962B943D1D for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:06:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from duanewinner@worldnet.att.net) Received: from [10.10.100.60] (unknown[216.113.237.29]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc12) with SMTP id <2004021321060111200t4lcve> (Authid: duanewinner); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:06:01 +0000 From: Duane Winner To: Peter Leftwich In-Reply-To: <24795.208.247.148.16.1076624911.squirrel@webmail.alienwebshop.com> References: <24795.208.247.148.16.1076624911.squirrel@webmail.alienwebshop.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: UTRS, Inc. Message-Id: <1076706461.45717.10.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:07:42 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Mounting to freebsd ufs under WinXP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: duanewinner@att.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:06:02 -0000 I look into this issue an average of once a year, because it's always been my dream to have a dual boot machine in which XP can read/write my UFS/ext2/etc. partitions and FreeBSD/Linux/etc. can read/write my NTFS partitions. I've seen a handful of 3rd party software out there that seems to come close, but I've never actually tried any of them because I get the impression that they are buggy, not fully-developed, or worse, abandoned projects. My current, (and actually quite happy) compromise is to have XP on FAT32 (because *nix can't write to NTFS {yet}), and then do my schleping while booted into FreeBSD. I backup my XP data from FreeBSD, and if I need to transfer files to XP, FreeBSD can write to that partition. I mount /dev/ad0s1 and make a sybolic link in my home directory to what would be C:\Documents and Settings\myname\My Documents. So when I do an "ls /home/myname/windata", I will see my XP "My Documents". I can delete, create and edit files through this, too. Works pretty nicely for me. I'm not crazy about the FAT32 compromise (I've always been a stickler for NTFS security), but for a single user box, I'm willing to compromise. Wouldn't dream of doing this on a production box, though. Regards, DW On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 17:28, Peter Leftwich wrote: > I researched this on the web but found nothing relevant or useful. > > Can someone recommend software that lets you mount TO freebsd (ufs) > partition FROM WITHIN Windows XP Pro SP1 (transparently)? > > Samba, which is open source and free, isn't a solution because it > requires a working [freebsd] operating system and running a daemon. > > Thanks mucho diGiornio, > > -- > Peter Leftwich, President & Founder > Video2Video Services > Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA > http://Www.Video2Video.Com > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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"