[ale] Mount a remote NTFS partition

[Richard Faulkner]

Thank you so much for chiming in on this Michael!  Indeed, thank you to
all who have 
chimed in on this.  I have yet to get back to this project but will be
working on it this 
weekend.  In the meantime I'll be reviewing all of the responses thus
far in greater 
detail.  Many thanks to all....

Someone along the way mentioned not remembering what the "$" denoted in
a M$ share.

As for the use of "$" with Window$ shares...the "$" denotes
Administrative shares used
by M$.  There are default shares created by the OS and a few of them are
"C$" and 
subsequent named shares for each partition seen by M$.  A new share for
a given 
partition can be created by the user/admin but they will not use the "$"
in the name.

One of the main uses for "$" shares that I've leveraged is accessing
entire drives 
administratively over the LAN to do maintenance.  

Will be reading your responses and post results......thanks!   Rich in
Lilburn


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael H. Warfield <mhw at WittsEnd.com>
Reply-to: mhw at WittsEnd.com, Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Cc: mhw at WittsEnd.com
Subject: Re: [ale] Mount a remote NTFS partition
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:40:44 -0500


On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 11:01 -0500, Michael B. Trausch wrote: 
> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 23:47 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > NOTE: I recall it is "bad practice" to have shares as foo$. Something
> > about that being a low level identifier (?) Don't recall details but
> > it's supposed to be better to create a folder to share out rather than
> > a full drive drive. 

> There is something special about the dollar sign in the filesystem
> namespace (even the network filesystem namespace) in Windows, but I
> can't recall for the life of me what it is.

There are some predefined admin drive shares - c$ for c:\ and d$ for d:\
as well as some others.  Might have even been possible to get at some
devices like lpt1: and such that way too but that was a long time ago.
IIRC, they are used internally for connecting to resources and such.  I
would avoid using a $ in a share name to avoid conflicts.

> Has anyone managed to figure out yet if Windows ever added support for
> POSIX filesystem semantics to their CIFS implementation?
> 
> 	--- Mike

Regards,
Mike
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