[ale] Mount a remote NTFS partition

[Michael H. Warfield]

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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