what is needed to mount a Windows NTFS share on a linux server?

Answer 1

You need the correct driver software to do this.

http://www.ntfs-linux.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/15/29/
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9696103689.html

Answer 2

Sundew,

Mounting an NTFS partition under Linux depends on if your kernel supports the NTFS filesystem, many newer kernels are compiled to support it. If your kernel doesn't support NTFS then the kernel will have to be recompiled with NTFS support.

Here are the sample commands taken from the source I used:
% mkdir /c
% chmod a+rw /c

% mount /dev/hda1 /c -t vfat ; (ntfs in your case)

Add "/dev/hda1 /c vfat noauto,user 0 2" (ntfs, again), to /etc/fstab if you want the drive to show up when you boot the server.

To unmount use the umount command.

Answer 3

Mounting NTFS read/write is still very dangerous, so you'll want to plan on read-only access. Generally, you will want to have support set up as a kernel module. Some distributions (such as Fedora) do not come with a kernel module in place, so you can't do it with the stock kernel. You may have to compile a kernel with that module enabled.