On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 23:27, Daniel L. Miller wrote: [snip - don't know enough about samba] > > I thought I'd try ftp. So I installed vsftpd - no probs after I figured > out the directory published via ftp is done by the user home directory - > and tried to access the NTFS mount. > > This failed.
vsftpd must be on the Linux box, right. Go to the Windows box and fire up the ftp client. You can ftp all day and night that way. (There are better Windows clients, though, that let you queue up files, and xfer while you watch TV.) > So, I pointed the ftp server at my root directory <gasp> and tried an > ftp client to change into the directory where the NTFS partition was > mounted. What root directory? > No go. > > So, please, SOME IDEAS WOULD BE APPRECIATED!!!! Why can't vsftpd access > my NTFS directory - and why do my file copies keep bombing - and how can > I achieve my main goal - which is to get these files off the old drive! > > BTW - before you ask, for various hardware reasons I can't install the > NTFS drive in my primary PC. Of course, I SHOULDN'T need too . . . . I wouldn't try it anyway: scared of data corruption. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Some former UNSCOM officials are alarmed, however. Terry Taylor, a British senior UNSCOM inspector from 1993 to 1997, says the figure of 95 percent disarmament is "complete nonsense because inspectors never learned what 100 percent was. UNSCOM found a great deal and destroyed a great deal, but we knew [Iraq's] work was continuing while we were there, and I'm sure it continues," says Mr. Taylor, now head of the Washington http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0829/p01s03-wosc.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
