Access over SMB writes in NTFS partition?

[hfernandes]

Hi everyone.

If I access my PCH over LAN, using SMB (\\popcorn\share), Can I copy a file to my internal disc if it's formated with NTFS?

I know that NTFS is read-only. Is it ready-only over LAN ?

I just want copy files from my notebook to my PCH.

Thanks in advance.

[Willem53]

A100 in EXT3(formatted by A100) you can write to over SMB

[nuke12]

(09-08-2010 06:56 PM)hfernandes Wrote:  Hi everyone.

If I access my PCH over LAN, using SMB (\\popcorn\share), Can I copy a file to my internal disc if it's formated with NTFS?

I know that NTFS is read-only. Is it ready-only over LAN ?

I just want copy files from my notebook to my PCH.

Thanks in advance.

No. Even though your accessing the drive via SMB it is still an NTFS drive to the PCH and they are read-only unless you have NTFS-3G (a CSI app) installed. Even with NTFS-3G installed, writes are extremely slow.

[hfernandes]

All right.

Thanks everyone for the answers.

I'll format/convert my HD to Ext3.

See ya!

[garp99]

Don't format yourself, let the A-100 do it when you install the NMT apps.
All previous contents will be wiped out.

NTFS is a bad idea on the A-1x0 series, for both internal HDD *and* external USB.
If you use external USB and they are NTFS then only attach to a PC and stream with Samba.
And that's my opinion from weeks of wasted time testing over 2 years.

Edit:
Although if the A100 has trouble recognizing your new HDD during the installation of NMT apps,
then yes you need to format it to fat32 or ntfs on your PC, and then redo the installation of NMT apps.

[hfernandes]

(09-09-2010 06:34 AM)garp99 Wrote:  Don't format yourself, let the A-100 do it when you install the NMT apps.
All previous contents will be wiped out.

NTFS is a bad idea on the A-1x0 series, for both internal HDD *and* external USB.
If you use external USB and they are NTFS then only attach to a PC and stream with Samba.
And that's my opinion from weeks of wasted time testing over 2 years.

Edit:
Although if the A100 has trouble recognizing your new HDD during the installation of NMT apps,
then yes you need to format it to fat32 or ntfs on your PC, and then redo the installation of NMT apps.

Thanks for your reply garp99.
I'll let PCH format the HDD (1.5TB).

Do you know which partition sizes will be created by PCH ?
What is the default partitions (size) created by PCH ?

[garp99]

On my A100, I have these 2 partitions from a 750 GB IDE drive (3rd partition created is swap file but it's very small)

Code:

# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1               247.0M    130.4M    116.6M  53% /mnt
/dev/hda3               687.0G    675.3G     11.7G  98% /opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK

[hfernandes]

(09-10-2010 12:54 AM)garp99 Wrote:  On my A100, I have these 2 partitions from a 750 GB IDE drive (3rd partition created is swap file but it's very small)

Code:

# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1               247.0M    130.4M    116.6M  53% /mnt
/dev/hda3               687.0G    675.3G     11.7G  98% /opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK

Thanks garp99,
was very helpfull !