RW on NTFS through SAMBA -> how come ?

[Clifford Snow]

On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 17:49 +0200, LarryT wrote:
> dragoran wrote:
> > LarryT wrote:
> > 
> >> I had just one question :
> >> How come that i can write from my fc6-test-1 (updated) on a NTFS 
> >> partition on a remote PC running XP on my network ?
> >>
> >> thx :)
> > 
> > is OT here...
> > because the remote host (windows) does the writing; you are only sending 
> > the data throght the smb protocoll to the host.
> > 
> thx dragoran. It seems to be something new, cause from my fc5 upadted, i 
> cant do such a thing. Must be something new with samba ?
> 
While XP has been somewhat more difficult for Samba, you should be able
to write to XP from FC5 with no problem.  I have from FC1 on forward.
While the syntax has changed for mounting, the ability to write has
always been there.  Take a look at http://www.fedorafaq.org/ for more
info.

Clifford