From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 21:36:59 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 D16041065679 for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 21:36:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from modulok@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f54.google.com (mail-pw0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A59278FC14 for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 21:36:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi9 with SMTP id 9so199874pwi.13 for ; Thu, 06 May 2010 14:36:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=TVYB1Jxg2mjYVWg0Wh++Xw+PLTVRZ1wk3vUeaFnJm2s=; b=XuGiAYOemIPpzZsVtiAGryNwSn5j9j3PMskg1WeLlBz/fJoFeJ2RVfH/DP+01AXbmg W7HHa9Dv5WeVSxEOprvhGFTrlJ4SqJ37ZGwk2OzCZEMQ3b5EY/H4jghKSmN5hPol9UHk 5HwZ77AQD1hQKTzUM1Dg5u7QwjOtK9z/oRByw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=NHEN6lUrPNTotD8dKuDZLPCY99GEzQrc9Ar7vypvxM5EGWsXtuqK+wa/ojMVrHaY0X lpteJPyAHJEu8cxNtF3PEok+S1p9ZcLMvVL1HOxMZI+XZCHD/HWihfPzXAJyr0jsCQjl ZPXHPFiqA9A37KJflUiIaOBtepPjQPmp/q0dc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.66.13 with SMTP id o13mr1576324wfa.72.1273181813919; Thu, 06 May 2010 14:36:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.165.21 with HTTP; Thu, 6 May 2010 14:36:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4BE32DE4.20206@tundraware.com> Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 15:36:53 -0600 Message-ID: From: Modulok To: Tim Daneliuk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List 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 21:37:00 -0000 >> "writing to an NTFS partition may corrupt the partition" - I'm guessing this is not the case anymore. That's only when you have directly mounted an NTFS on the local machine. Like if you jacked a hard drive out of a windows machine and plugged it into your BSD machine. If you're accessing it across a network you're never directly accessing the file system. There is always an intermediary between you and it; the daemon which handles file i/o requests. Notice: It handles your *requests*; you never actually access the underlying file system. On 5/6/10, Modulok wrote: > In order to 'provide' shares to a windows network you would need to > run a daemon on FreeBSD which provides such services. The most popular > solution is 'samba'. I think the package is called 'samba3'. You > install it, edit its config file, which specifies what to share and > how to share it. You then run the daemon and poof, your windows > machines can access the shares you've configured. > > On the other hand, if the windows machines are providing a shared > folder you want to access, you can just mount that share via the > 'mount_smbfs' command. For example, if I had a windows computer named > 'apollo' with username 'guest' and a folder named 'shared' I wanted to > access, I could do this from my FreeBSD machine: > > # As root: > mount_smbfs //guest@apollo/shared /mnt > > I would now have the contents of apollo's 'shared' folder available in > my '/mnt' directory. See 'mount_smbfs(8)' for more. > > Other options could involve setting up an SSH client/server on the two > machines and use 'sftp' or 'scp' to transfer files, among others. > -Modulok- > > On 5/6/10, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> 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/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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" >> >