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    November 28, 2007 6:03 AM

    I need to get some files off of my Mac partition to an external HDD that is NTFS. I can't write to it so I'm trying to use Filezilla to upload to another computer then to my HDD. I must be doing something wrong because it won't connect. Any suggestions?

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      November 28, 2007 6:07 AM

      if it's an intel mac I'd burn a ubuntu 7.10 disc as it includes write support for ntfs

      alternately I'd try using windows file sharing

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      November 28, 2007 6:09 AM

      what wont connect? pretty vague.

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        November 28, 2007 6:30 AM

        It won't connect to the computer I'm using as a server. Not sure how to put in the address for the computer into filezilla to access it.

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          November 28, 2007 6:33 AM

          IE, should it be something like \\ ip address\drive\folder ?

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            November 28, 2007 6:51 AM

            I see below that you got the NTFS stuff working. But samba works pretty well on the mac. Proper format is smb:\\username:password@hostname\sharename Hopefully this works in the future, I find samba to be pretty useful.

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          November 28, 2007 6:36 AM

          ah. well you are going to need to setup a ftp server on said pc. have you done that? if so using filezilla is a snap, just enter the the ip and the un/pass you setup for the client.

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      November 28, 2007 6:32 AM

      http://www.ntfs-3g.org/index.html seems to work ok for me

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        November 28, 2007 6:36 AM

        I can never get this to work right. I'll give it another shot.

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          November 28, 2007 6:44 AM

          WOOT!!!! Got this to work finally. Thanks!

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            November 28, 2007 6:44 AM

            so basically you never tried it before?

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          November 28, 2007 6:45 AM

          well this is the other way round from what you described above, but yeah i have this installed in Leopard and macdrive installed in Vista on my MBP and it seems to work for me.

          All i had to do to get this working was download and install MacFUSE http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ and then download and install the NTFS-3G dmg. Probably safest to reboot inbetween each step but yeah it worked fine for me straight off like that.

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