Windows directory structure doesn't support the permissions stuff, so all you can do is set some global rule for the whole Windows partition. --- Piero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In order to coordinate the Netscape address books in the Windows partition > and > those on the Linux partition, I erased the files corresponding to the last > ones > and substituted them with symlinks to the files existing in the Windows > partition. > It wasn't so smooth, but it finally worked. > Now, in the process of doing this napoleonic manoevre, I stumbled over > something that made me perplexed, and for which somebody has perhaps an > explanation. > > All the files in the Windows partition belong to root and have mode: > rwxr--r--. > When I work under Linux I work under username piero. > > Since the changes in the addressbooks, that piero makes under Linux, have > to be > reflected on the Windows partition files, I logged in as root, and tried to > change the permissions of these files (chmod o+w filename). Impossible. I > tried the to change their ownership: impossible. I finally modified > /etc/fstab, > in such a way that piero has the ownership of all the files in the Windows > partition (uid=piero's user number). > This made the think work, but I do not find it satisfactory. Does anybody > know > what prevents root form changing permission or ownership of the files > belonging > to the Windows partition? > ===== Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed & Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
