Just thought I'd close this thread with a success report: umask=000 did the trick, it gives everybody rwx access, just what I was looking for in this instance.
In addition, it's nice that I can provide different umasks for different partitions, to keep me from accidentally messing up my Win98 partition, etc. As for the intended purpose (a shared FAT32 partition with Half-Life on it), as of last night I could play HL on LAN against bots with no problems (other than my computer is slow). Unfortunately, my computer times out trying to connect to 'net games, but I believe that is a combination of an already slow computer running a slow HL menu system emulated slowly. :-P But in principle, I should be able to (used to be able to) +connect <SERVERADDR> from a shortcut and make it in. For the record, I'm using the latest Mesa (v5.0.1), Nvidia drivers, and WINE (compiled with --enable-opengl=yes; not sure if that option actually makes a difference these days or not). Also, I have GLU and GLUT installed for my distro (Slackware v9.0). Frame rates are comparable to Windows, playing full screen at 1024x768. Also, I changed my clan tag to .LINUX instead of .CDN. At least for now. Gotta spread the word and show off a little. ;-) I know this kind of in-game evangelism makes a difference 'cos the person that inspired me to make it work under Linux had a name of Gentoo_LINUX or something similar. Needless to say, I am once again actively excited about the prospect of a Tweak/GameFest, not just for the gaming. It feels great to get this stuff going under a superior OS. ;-) Curtis. -----Original Message----- From: Nathanael Noblet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 24, 2003 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (clug-talk) [support] How to give users read-write access to moun ted FAT32 partitions? On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 07:43 AM, Curtis Sloan wrote: > The subject says it all. I have tried a number of different things > (modifications to fstab, sudo, etc.), but I think I'm simply barking > up the > wrong tree to get the job done. My understanding (at this point) is > that > the partition is being auto-mounted during startup, which is why it is > mounted as root (and hence read-only for users). I'm not sure where > to poke > around to change this, though. > > I want a regular user to have "normal", Windows-like read-write access > to > any FAT32 partitions, but to be a regular user in every other respect > -- > i.e. I don't want to make the user a member of the "root" group (an > example > only, I'm not sure if that's even right), if possible. > > Can anyone help me do this? > > Thanks, > Curtis. > > FTR (for the record), it's Slackware 9.0 (woohoo!) but that shouldn't > matter. This is basic *nix stuff (/me is shamed). > in fstab options column, put UID=XXX,UMASK=077 where XXX is a userid and UMASK is obviously the rwx mask you'd like it mounted with. -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 T/F 403.288.5360 C 403.809.5368 http://www.gnat.ca/
