[dayglored]

> However, I was able to pull up the NTFS drive in Ubuntu, and read the files located on it. I created a file in the text editor, and was able to save it to the NTFS drive. I’m still looking into it to see what all I can/can’t do. Once I get the share up, I’ll see what we can do from a windows box to the shared drive.

Be careful, please. There exist allegedly "write-capable" Linux drivers for NTFS, but none that *in my experience* are guaranteed to work:
a) in all circumstances, and
b) compatibly with Windows client machines sharing the same filesystem

Definitely check the fine print on anything that claims to be able to write NTFS, that is not from Microsoft or one of their licensed driver partners. Be suspicious. I've been burned by this one (writes turned out to be unstable, and if you value your data as I do, "writing" was a mirage).

OTOH, if you really have full read/write on NTFS via Linux, I'm interested in knowing the details if you're willing to share your experience.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Here’s what I’ve got going on - I’m running server with a GUI. It’s easier for me to deal with that than to go through a straight CLI. Beyond that, I didn’t load anything beyond what came with the OS. I was able to browse to the NTFS drive within the Ubuntu file browser and to open it up. I was able to see files within there, browse directories, and actually listen to audio files I have stored there and to look at a couple video clips that I have in there. PDF files pulled up with no problem.

I did create a root password so I could login to that side of the system and make some changes to the domain name in Samba (and yes, I’m going to get rid of it here in a minute), but other than that, I didn’t make any adds to the system to gain access to the NTFS.

I don’t know if it’s something that was added with 8.10 or not, but it’s there, and right now, I’m copy files from my workstation to the shared drive.

[FrogBurger]

dayglored, the new ntfs_ng drivers can read/Write an NTFS partition without trouble.

[Knitebane]

Be careful, please. There exist allegedly "write-capable" Linux drivers for NTFS, but none that *in my experience* are guaranteed to work:

Allegedly? NTFS read/write in the Linux 2.6 kernel is exactly as guaranteed to work ast NTFS on Windows.

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Truthfully, NTFS write support on Ubuntu works just fine.

Here's how to enable it.