ntfs screw up continued! spelling etc.

[Bill Koob <wkoob@minn.net>]

I wrote lastly
>Well I went and done it and it does not work.
Before I did it - I could mount -t msdos /dev/sda  /mnt/msdos
and the external scsi drive would mount.
I wanted to mount -t ntfs /dev/sda /mnt/ntfs
Now it will not because I did the following
as per the following:<
I can now mount a compressed scsi nt compressed drive on the 1st vol.
of the disk - but have not been able to mount the dos vol.
Any ideas? (this is still true)

The big secret had to do a insmod ntfs and then
verifing that it had been loaded with cat /proc/filesysystems

The same with loading smbfs for networking to an Nt server.
However after connecting to the server with
smbclient -L Server -W Domain -I machine-name-to-logon-to -U username
I get a list of all the resources of machine-name-to-logon-to
for example
c$ Disk Default Share
d$ Disk Default Share
e$ Disk Default Share
printer etc, etc, etc.

Now when I try to map a drive - it returns no error - but gives no data in
the mounted
directory.

The only example I could find for NT
gave smbmount /// -I -U -c 'mount /mnt'
so I typed
smbmount /// -I machine-to-logon-to -U username -c 'mount /mnt'
No error reported - nothing reported - but no date available in /mnt
So I tried to do it as in winNT
smbmount //machine-to-logon-to-name/c$ -U username /mnt
It then asked for my password and went to a prompt
>smb:
and sat there.
NOW I used smbmount //machinename/e$ -U username /mnt
It asked for a password:
It then went to c >smb: prompt.

(WHAT HAPPENED HERE WAS AT THE >smb: (I typed) mount /mnt)
IT WORKED.  I do not know why and still have not test the write
capability but will soon - although I know the read works. 

in the 'mount /mnt' do I have to say 'mount ntfs /mnt'

Everything is like pulling teeth esp. with no proper documentation/manuals.

Thanks for any help.

bill koob