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I want them to be able to access the entire NTFS drive.

I’ve got two drives, a 120gb that contains Ubuntu, and a 250gb that is formatted to NTFS for the Windows side of the house.

I’m going through the Samba install document that you posted, and so far, that appears to be what I’m looking to do for now. I want the family to be able to access the NTFS (I keep having to correct that - one of the programs I work with is called NFTS, so if you see that, forgive me :) ) drive - if we can do it without them having to use a login/password, that would be great.

Additionally, one thing I’d like to do would be to host a family website locally - just for those of us in the house. Keep a calendar on it, reminders of upcoming stuff, etc. I figured with the LAMP installation, I could work out how to do the Apache side of it. Right now, I’m wanting to be able to configure the file share side of it.

> I want them to be able to access the entire NTFS drive. I’ve got two drives, a 120gb that contains Ubuntu, and a 250gb that is formatted to NTFS for the Windows side of the house. I’m going through the Samba install document that you posted, and so far, that appears to be what I’m looking to do for now. I want the family to be able to access the NTFS (I keep having to correct that - one of the programs I work with is called NFTS, so if you see that, forgive me :) ) drive - if we can do it without them having to use a login/password, that would be great.

Linux can't write to NTFS (by default).

Use a Linux native filesystem, such as "ext3". Let Samba take care of making it look Windows-friendly.

AFAIK, an NTFS partition on Ubuntu is read-only at best, unless you fork over $bux$ to somebody for a read-write driver.

I share ext3 to Windows users at my company and at home using Samba. Works just dandy.