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From: Patrick Thurmond [mailto:p_thurmond@yahoo.com]

Hi everybody, I was wondering, does anyone know of any local stores that are
selling Mandrake 8.2 yet? Also can Samba read an NTFS partition created by a
Winblows XP (Xtra Poop) machine?  Just wondering because I finally have a
swappable drive situation now and I want booth bootable HDD's to be able to
access a 60GB hdd running an NTFS partition created in XP.

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There is experimental code available in the Kernel to directly read NTFS
partitions, but they advise that you should not use the code to write to
those partitions unless you are prepared to loose them.

This has nothing to do with Samba, Samba provides network services from NT
Servers on xNIX boxen, and allows the xNIX boxen to share with Windows
clients.  

It should be noted that one of the things Microsoft is moving from NT4 to
W2k to WXP for is to keep ahead of the Samba project.  One of the things
that's been rumored to change in XP is that NTFS is no longer NTFS.