How do you mount and read ntfs partitions?

[garyng]

[quote="Thaidog"]

With Samba you can mount NTFS volumes and read and write to them, but remember, it's the actual Windows computer that's still handling the low-level hard drive access. Samba's just "telling it what to do."

(End of half-assed guess. )

Well what if you have a linux box acting as a samba server? (Am I going to get shot if I dig too deep here? ) It still makes no sense to me...

Samba on linux still relies on underlying fs to access NTFS and currently only read-only unless you use capture. eco2geek's referred to using the smbfs which would mount a remote server that is running Windows that can read/write NTFS.