That helped some. By changing the group still caused the problem. But, if I change the ownership to my id, then it works like expected. This is only a partial solution, though, because my wife will still get the problem. Where it becomes a real pain is that Star Office hangs when trying to save. The best I can tell is it detects the error, but doesn't know what to do with it. It does save the file though, but you have to kill SO. KOffice apps and Konquerer display the error message (and they, too, actually save the file). The current workaround I have is to go into Konquerer and go to the proper folder. Right click and create a file (any type will work) with the name of the document you want to save from SO. Close the error dialog that is displayed. Go back to SO and save the document. A dialog is presented that says the file already exists. I tell it to overwrite and all is well - i.e. no error about permissions is displayed. Joe On Monday 24 September 2001 01:24 pm, you wrote: > I don't have the capability of testing this at the moment, but this > should work for you... > > In linuxconf, bring up File Systems->Access Local Drive > > Double click on your vfat partition and select the Dos Options tab. > > Here you can set the default group, userID and permissions. > > If you play with these options (I would start with the permissions) and > perhaps your own group memberships, I'll bet you can get it to work. > > Good luck! > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph Braddock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 12:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [expert] Accessing vfat partition > > > I have my pc set to dual boot between Mandrake 8 and Windows 98. That > all > works fine. My problem is in accessing the vfat partition for Windows. > I > can open/edit/delete any files on the partition, but when I try to > create > one, I get an error about not being able to change the ownership of the > file. > > I tried creating a group called win_c and added guid=win_c in the fstab > for > the particular partition and I added my id as a member of win_c. Upon > rebooting, root is listed as the owner and win_c is the group for all > of the > files on win_c. So far, so good, or so I thought, but I still get the > error. > > The best I can tell is that when Linux boots, and mounts win_c, it does > so as > root and root becomes the owner. I'm guessing that a vfat partition > doesn't > allow for actual ownership, so Linux substitutes the owner from when the > > partition was mounted. > > You may wonder why I need to create files on the windows partition, but > it's > quite simple. My kids use the windows partition for games. I have Star > > Office loaded on both Linux and Windows. That way, I can quickly access > my > data files regardless of what OS is running. I store the documents on > the > Windows partition (since Windows can't read anything else) and I don't > really want to store them in two places. > > In short, I guess what I'm asking is how to get the vfat partition to > recognize the logged in user as the user/owner of the files (so it > doesn't > try to change ownership). > > TIA, > > Joe
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