(If Samba is already running, it checks smb.conf every minute, so you don't need to stop and restart the service to have it find the new share.) That's all the FAT32 partition will be available on your LAN with the name MyFatShare (or wathever you put between the square brackets). This will enable and run Samba file sharing.
#Ntfs or fat32 for mac network drive windows#
Enable Windows sharing in the Sharing System Preferences panel.The pop-up dialog box will show the source and destination file system, click 'OK' to continue. There’s a translation layer to enforce the NTFS permissions that any client (Mac, Windows, Linux) would have to satisfy to get to shared files, but the basic access should. Right click the partition and select Convert to NTFS. In this example, I created a public world-writable share). Answer: If the share is offered to the LAN that the (assumed) Windows system is on, it’s offered as an SMB compatible share. FAT32 File System The FAT32 file system is also called File Allocation Table file system, which was created in 1977 by Microsoft. (You can tailor the share permissions to your liking. Usage: An NTFS file system is perfect for your Windows system drive and other internal drives or external hard drives with large capacities that will just be used with Windows. Add the following to the end of smb.conf (assuming your partition/drive is mounted on /Volumes/myfat32hd): path =/Volumes/myfat32hd public=yes writable=yes browseable = yes only guest=yes Then save the file (in pico, you can type Control-X, then answer Y).In terminal, edit the file /etc/smb.conf to add the share: sudo pico /etc/smb.conf.In brief, I found that sharing FAT32 (and NTFS) partition is possible and not so hard to do you just need to use Samba. Googling around, I found some posts here and there discussing the problem, but no workaround (apart from reformatting the drive using HFS+). Recently I had to share an external FAT32 formatted hard drive with another Mac, only to discover that OS X (10.4 and 10.5 I don't know if previous versions did the same) don't share non-HFS partitions.
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