Unless I set my id as the default user id, it doesn't work. I have a group set up and have made that group the default group, but it still errors out when trying to create a file, because it is trying to change the owner of the file to the user logged in and vfat won't allow it. In linuxconf, I've set the permission to 0 because it writes this to fstab as a umask instead of a mode. Joe On Monday 24 September 2001 01:55 pm, you wrote: > If it worked for you, it should work for your group as well, shouldn't > it? > > Set the default group to vfatusers > > Make you and your wife members of that group > > Does this work? > > What about setting the permissions to 777 in linuxconf? > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph Braddock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 12:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Accessing vfat partition > > > 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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