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Section Contents
- FAQ
- "Phishing"
- Printing, Photocopying & Scanning
- Remote Connections (NX)
- Secure Shell
- Connecting to the School's file servers from Windows XP
- Connecting to the School's file servers from MacOS X
- Connecting to the School's file servers from Ubuntu
- Windows 7 Managed Desktop FAQ
- EndNote Styles
- Visitor Registration
- Departing and Retiring Staff
- Eclipse FAQ
- Thunderbird FAQ
- Anti Virus Software
- Matlab
- Storage Arrangements
- Buying storage for your research project
- Current basic PC prices
- Guidelines on costing computing in Research Grants
- Texmaker
- OpenOffice F.A.Q.
- GEOS Cluster quickstart
- GEOS Cluster FAQ
- eLearning FAQ
- PHP on Xweb
- Content Control with SVN
- Space Usage on Linux
- Accessing ISO9600 (CD/DVD) Images
- LaTeX template for a UoE PhD Thesis
- Wireless Access Points
- NTFS read/write on Linux
- ArcGIS
- Tidying your Windows Roaming Profile
- LCFG SL6 Desktops
NTFS read/write on Linux
In order to be able to mount an NTFS file system on an external drive or USB stick with reasonable user/group permissions you need to rune to following command once:
ntfs_gconf_setup.sh
Background
The problem on our current Linux desktops (SL5.4) is two-fold:- there is no HAL policy which handles NTFS filesystems. So we need to provide one
- there is a bug in the version of HAL we are using: the mounted file system does get the correct UID/GID/UMASK settings. This is fixed by running the above mentioned script which sets these in the gconf data base.