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I installed Slack 9 and have Gnome running, and after I got everything working, I downloaded both giFT and a DC++ client to set up my filesharing. I went to add my NTFS drives(which I have mounted under /mnt/windows1 and /mnt/windows2), which contains all of my Shared stuff. But when I try to use them, they both give me errors.
Basically, my question is whether I can share files from my mounted NTFS drives. I know that the drives are read-only, but I thought I would be able to read from the drives and share those files, but...is it just a program specific thing, or are you not able to share stuff from those mounted drives?
I'm using RHL9, but I think it applies to all linux, the fact being that linux does not support NTFS file systems YET. If you have your files in a FAT file system it's all good though.
WRONG! linux does support NTFS it just needs compiling in at kernel level, then mounting it with mount -t ntfs /path.to.filesystem /dir.to.mount/filesystem
I'm using RHL9, but I think it applies to all linux, the fact being that linux does not support NTFS file systems YET. If you have your files in a FAT file system it's all good though.
Actually, many Linux distributions support NTFS out of the box - the key is to only Read NTFS and not try to write to it. - For legal reasons Red Hat has chose not to include either of the NTFS drivers.
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