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Frump
Sep 19, 2004, 03:51 AM
I have just attached an external hard drive that is NTFS formatted. Is there any way I can change the permissions. I only have write permissions but I would like to be able to delete and write to the drive. If possible I would like to keep the drive formatted for NTFS.

I am running 10.3.5.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.

Frump. :)


neilrobinson
Sep 19, 2004, 04:10 AM
with os 10.anything you can only read ntfs not write/change ect... their is a utillity that i have somewhere thats allows you to... will post the name and address when i find the right dvd

neil
earthtoandy
Sep 19, 2004, 04:14 AM
why do you want to keep it ntfs!?
Frump
Sep 19, 2004, 04:33 AM
why do you want to keep it ntfs!?

Because I also have two pc's.

Frump.
Frump
Sep 19, 2004, 04:34 AM
with os 10.anything you can only read ntfs not write/change ect... their is a utillity that i have somewhere thats allows you to... will post the name and address when i find the right dvd

neil

I would really appreciate any help you can give me.

Frump. :)
earthtoandy
Sep 19, 2004, 05:05 AM
gotcha... thats what io thought. is it firewire? can you do a target disk mode type deal to transfer data to it?
Frump
Sep 19, 2004, 05:26 AM
gotcha... thats what io thought. is it firewire? can you do a target disk mode type deal to transfer data to it?

Pc's are in the basement and the Mac is upstairs. I have one of those hard disk Docking stations from Wiebetech that I use to switch out drives.
The Mac and Pc's are networked but it is much faster moving large video files with the Docking station.

Frump.
neilrobinson
Sep 19, 2004, 05:31 AM
ok,

this one is freeware / open source, i think it does what you want.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsosx/

neil
Frump
Sep 20, 2004, 02:38 AM
ok,

this one is freeware / open source, i think it does what you want.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsosx/

neil

Thank you for your assistance but that supports "read only". Panther already has that ability. Do you know of any other software that might be available.

Frump. :)
slughead
Sep 20, 2004, 09:49 AM
Thank you for your assistance but that supports "read only". Panther already has that ability. Do you know of any other software that might be available.

Frump. :)

You will almost certainly need to buy it.

Macdrive is a good program, I used it when it was called "PC Macdrive" (or something like that).

With that in mind, time to get shoppin!
jeremy.king
Sep 20, 2004, 11:04 AM
This has been a frustration in the Linux/Unix/MacOSX community for a while....

You have a couple options.

1. Setup FTP server on your PC. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/)
2. Convert your PCs to FAT32 using PartitionMagic (only supports 32GB partitions, I think)

Good luck.