USB HD NTFS support out of the box?

[stensma]

My newly bought USB HD was connected yesterday to my Bubba.
To my surprise I could not edit or write to it!
I had followed the steps in the manual with Admin...Mount button and all that!

Why is it not working, I am prepared to dig down into the fstab and mount topics but it should not be nessesary!

What is the tip ? Have I done something wrong?

[fallberg]

I have the same problem. I formatted a USB harddrive to NTFS in WinXP and then mounted it in the Bubba using the Web interface. But I cannot modify the contents on it through samba nor can I add any folders using the web interface. To make sure it was not any rights issue, I set full control to all users in XP before moving it to the Bubba.
Worth mentioning is that I also enabled compression on the disc, if that may be a problem. I do not think so since compression is included in the NTFS standard and to my experince with desktop Linux, NTFS in Linux is rather mature now.
I too have not tried to "hand-mount" it but I agree that it should not be necessary, since there is a "gui" to do it.

[Puma]

Hello,

I bought an wd my book studio 750 Gb (usb, esata, FW) formatted it to NTFS as well.
Bubba 2 recognized it could read it but not write to it.
I would not go for FAT32 (4Gb limit) so I reformatted and partioned it with ubuntu (Gparted) to EXT3.

Now I can mount the disc with webadmin, I can see the drive but I can still not write to it.

Can someone tell me why?? Permissions??

Please help with this topic.

Puma

[pa]

Hi,

NTFS-support is read-only.
The reason for not being able to write to the disk when it is mounted with ext3 is most likely that you have tried to write to the disk as "admin". In the current release only regular users are allowed to write to external disk, something that has been changed in the upcoming release.

/PA