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Thank you so much for chiming in on this Michael! Indeed, thank you to all who have <BR>
chimed in on this. I have yet to get back to this project but will be working on it this <BR>
weekend. In the meantime I'll be reviewing all of the responses thus far in greater <BR>
detail. Many thanks to all....<BR>
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Someone along the way mentioned not remembering what the "$" denoted in a M$ share.<BR>
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As for the use of "$" with Window$ shares...the "$" denotes Administrative shares used<BR>
by M$. There are default shares created by the OS and a few of them are "C$" and <BR>
subsequent named shares for each partition seen by M$. A new share for a given <BR>
partition can be created by the user/admin but they will not use the "$" in the name.<BR>
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One of the main uses for "$" shares that I've leveraged is accessing entire drives <BR>
administratively over the LAN to do maintenance. <BR>
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Will be reading your responses and post results......thanks! Rich in Lilburn<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
<B>From</B>: Michael H. Warfield <<A HREF="mailto:%22Michael%20H.%20Warfield%22%20%3cmhw@WittsEnd.com%3e">mhw@WittsEnd.com</A>><BR>
<B>Reply-to</B>: mhw@WittsEnd.com, Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale@ale.org><BR>
<B>To</B>: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <<A HREF="mailto:Atlanta%20Linux%20Enthusiasts%20%3cale@ale.org%3e">ale@ale.org</A>><BR>
<B>Cc</B>: <A HREF="mailto:mhw@WittsEnd.com">mhw@WittsEnd.com</A><BR>
<B>Subject</B>: Re: [ale] Mount a remote NTFS partition<BR>
<B>Date</B>: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:40:44 -0500<BR>
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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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