Neil Bothwick wrote: > > user or users. The difference is that with user, only the user that > mounted a filesystem, or root, can umount it. With users, user A can > mount a filesystem and user B can umount it.
What a right 'carry on' this access issue is. I eventually got on the machine in question. Two NTFS partitions. When I add noauto,ro,user,uid=1001 the user in question can mount and read the various files. The respective mount point under /mnt/Suzy_WinXP is shown as suzy:root. As soon as I remove the uid number from fstab the user can no longer access the files! Konqueror comes up with this error: "Unable to enter file:///mnt/Suzy_WinXP. You do not have access rights to this location." The /mnt/Suzy_WinXP is now shown as root:root and Konqueror shows "Locked Folder". The funny thing is that the NTFS partition *is* mounted as shown in mount: =================== /dev/sda14 on /mnt/Suzy_WinXP type ntfs (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev) =================== So, if I want to mount NTFS partitions by different users what am I supposed to do? Pile up the uid Nos? There must be a better way. Unlike VFAT partitions which do not recognise/require ownership NTFS does not seem to want to play. Are your experiences different? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
