And another day that starts with wasting time. I hope someone here can help me. Up until now I had no need to ask around, but now even 'G' nor 'DDG' are my friends. In an extensive project, I stumbled upon NTFS permission conversion, considering that could never be done simply by smb.
So I find the half baked auto implemented ntfs-3g which is probably enough for most, and a good reason why there are so much warnings and questions and panic about file-sharing between Windows and Linux machines on NTFS.
Now my career started implementing the correct permissions on file systems and in the first two years I was able to solve many, many problems. I intent to make the switch to Linux in a professional way, which means I need to use the tools.
As you may spend a lot of time reading my extensive text here, I did the same. Reading many, many texts leading to nothing at all. But here is my question:
Why is it so hard to find one simple program, made for convenience? 'ntfsusermap.exe'.'Open it from the location where it was downloaded to'.
Everything works on Linux from the folder without any 'make' needs anymore. But for the Windows side: NOTHING! Is there anyone here who knows how to get 'ntfsusermap.exe' downloaded to a location on a Windows machine?Does it need creation?
I have been working in IT for over 20 years and had schooled myself in the Microsoft domain. At the same time, being 'European', I kept an eye open for Linux. I am not 'a fan' of anything other than the human beings electro-technical improvements and anything that derives from there.Finally after many years of watching and trials, I think I can provide professional clients in my field of work, (broadcast-)media, with Linux machines, -services & -environments stretching to desktop machine level.
Though there are many things I like about the whole trip we have made since the ninetees, I really dislike how the Linux community shares knowledge. Making people feel stupid for not knowing what they don't know. To that level.In all the years I have met Linux engineers (mostly redhat), I have hardly met any smart enough to be able to communicate in order to teach young people in companies. It is very straight forward how many of them judge Microsoft. 'Hiding knowledge doesn't make you smarter. It makes you more expensive and much heavier carrying a lot of stuff around you never use or even need.'
Why is it so hard to explain a simple Windows user process?