From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 21:00:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD9CE1065674 for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 21:00:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from ozzie.tundraware.com (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B86C8FC14 for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 21:00:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (viper.tundraware.com [192.168.0.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by ozzie.tundraware.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o46L0HaJ064526 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 16:00:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <4BE32DE4.20206@tundraware.com> Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 16:00:20 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Mailing List References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.5 (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]); Thu, 06 May 2010 16:00:17 -0500 (CDT) X-TundraWare-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-TundraWare-MailScanner-ID: o46L0HaJ064526 X-TundraWare-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-TundraWare-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows 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: Thu, 06 May 2010 21:00:24 -0000 On 5/6/2010 3:47 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a file I need in my bsd box, would it be easier, or is it possible, to mount an NTFS share , or should I try to "map" a directory from the windows box. > > > TIA, > > I have > > Xp > Win7 > Win2003 > Win2008 > Freebsd 6.4 > > thanx Same machine or two separate machines? Two separate machines is trivial - share a directory on the Win machine and use smbfs on FBSD to get to it. For same machine, boot FBSD, and do a mount with -t ntfs as an arg .... well, I don't recall if 6.4 supported this or not, now that I think about it. One-time or frequent transfer? There are tons of other options, especially if you're running separate machines. Not all of these are elegant, but they all will work and have their place for infrequent transfers: - Email the file to yourself from one OS and retrieve it from the other. - Copy the file to a thumbdrive - Copy the file to a private website which can then be subsequently retrieved by another machine/OS image. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/