Re: Connecting to NT domain

Glynn Clements (glynn@sensei.co.uk)
Thu, 6 Aug 1998 05:09:36 +0100 (BST)


Ow W K Danny wrote:

> I'm not running NT, but just to find out if this works.
>
> > Samba does not provide a means to identify files uniquely (no inode
> > numbers), hence 'mv' or 'cp' refuse to overwrite files remotely mounted
> > with files from the same partition, claiming you replace the file by
> > itself (say in a real FS you'd do: 'cp a b' and b is a link to a. 'cp'
> > would notice this). YOu can 'rm' the destination first, of course.
>
> Will mtools work in this case? Like "mcopy', "mdel", "mren" ....

No. mtools operates directly upon devices (or files) containing FAT
filesystems. You can't use it on anything else.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>
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