[ale] Mount a remote NTFS partition

[Michael B. Trausch]

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.

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

	--- Mike
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20110127/c3cf0d7f/attachment.bin