I just checked the fstab manual My understanding of it is that it is used to mount devices like hard drives cdroms etc.
In my case it is that I am in front of the win2000 machine and I can see the actual files in my Debian box but I can't add files or folders from the win2000 machine. However I can do all that from the Debian machine.
Does this still sound like the problem you had and do you still think it has to do with fstab? I am asking because there is one option about mounting partitions from remote systems. An option called nfs.
I somehow managed to misread your post. My problem was on a machine that has both Debian and Windows-98SE. When I would mount the Windows partitions manually, only root could do anything with them. When I added them to fstab, then they were accessible normally.
Over the network, I mount partitions on other systems via Samba. So, i'm not yet familiar with nfs.
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