From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 21:12:36 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 ECC92106566B for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 21:12:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jnatola@familycareintl.org) Received: from mail.familycareintl.org (static-64-61-120-78.isp.broadviewnet.net [64.61.120.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99AB98FC14 for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 21:12:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from FCIEXCHANGE1.FCI ([::1]) by FCIEXCHANGE1.FCI ([::1]) with mapi; Thu, 6 May 2010 17:12:32 -0400 From: Jean-Paul Natola To: 'Tim Daneliuk' , FreeBSD Mailing List Thread-Topic: Accessing file from windows or to windows Thread-Index: AQHK7V0DTuoEX1soLEa7ZQoqoUyXl5JFJpoA//+99fA= Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 21:12:32 +0000 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4BE32DE4.20206@tundraware.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: 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 21:12:37 -0000 On 5/6/2010 3:47 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: >=20 > Hi all, >=20 > 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 wi= ndows box. >=20 >=20 > TIA, >=20 > I have=20 >=20 > Xp > Win7 > Win2003=20 > Win2008=20 > Freebsd 6.4 >=20 > thanx =20 Same machine or two separate machines? Two separate machines is trivial - share=20 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. -------------------------------------------------------- Well my book (absolute BSD) yes its old, says: "writing to an NTFS partition may corrupt the partition" - I'm guessing thi= s is not the case anymore and to answer your question;=20 1. Its 2 separate machines=20 2. As a security standard I have disabled flash drives in the office=20 3. It will be a monthly taks 4. No web access on the bsd box