Quick Install Question

[Roshan]

On 12/28/05, Roshan <rbhurtha at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/28/05, Robert Slade <bsd at bathnetworks.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 19:18, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:42:54 PM
> > > "Andrew L. Gould" <algould at datawok.com>
> > > Subject: Re: Quick Install Question
> > > Wrote these words of wisdom:
> > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Is the WinXP partition in the same computer that is running FreeBSD? Or
> > > > is the NTFS partition a shared directory on a separate WinXP computer?
> > > > (I was not aware that Samba could be used to read NTFS partitions
> > > > residing on a FreeBSD computer.)
> > > >
> > > > The original poster wishes to dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD on the same
> > > > computer.
> > > >
> > > > Andrew Gould
> > >
> > >
> > > ***** REPLY SEPARATOR *****
> > > On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied:
> > >
> > > Actually, there are three computers. One is running FreeBSD 5.4 and the
> > > other two have WinXP Pro installed. I networked all three together. The
> > > WinXP systems are using the NTFS format. Samba can read and write to
> > > both of the WinXP machines without any problems.
> > >
> > > I really do not know if this is germane to a dual boot system however.
> > > It probably is not since WinXP would not actually be running when
> > > FreeBSD was in this type of configuration.
> > >
> > > Fat32 is really a poor file system when compared to NTFS. It is too bad
> > > that he is unable to get a second machine and use FreeBSD on it instead
> > > of dual booting.
> > >
> > > Just my 2¢.
> >
> > Gerhard,
> >
> > Just to clear up a point. In your case, Samba is not writing to NTFS. it
> > is handling the communications between the 2 operating systems using the
> > SMB protocol. The individual OS' handle to filing system input/outputs.
> >
> > The issue with FreeBSD reading and writing to NTFS directly is
> > different. There is a driver that will allow FreeBSD to read NTFS, but
> > because of the complexities of NTFS writing to it is dificult and whilst
> > possible can cause the NTFS partition to become unreadable by XP.
> >
> > For info the best way of setting up dual booting of FreeBSD and XP is to
> > use 3 partitions, 1 for XP using NTFS, 1 for FreeBSD and a 3rd Fat32
> > partition for data transfer.
> >
> > Rob
> >
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Hi everyone. i just want to add a little something to this discussion,
about read/write from Windows boxes.

You can use mount_smbfs to mount a shared resource from an SMB file server.

See 'man mount_smbfs' for more info.

Roshan