Thanks for your help. Joe On Monday 24 September 2001 04:15 pm, you wrote: > On Monday 24 September 2001 03:55 pm, Joseph Braddock wrote: > > I tried changing my /etc/fstab to exactly what you have below except I > > used win_c instead of windows. I still get the same problem. Are you > > sure your ID doesn't have root permisions? > > > > The only time I'm having problems is in creating a new document (it's > > not just Star Office, either). Writing existing files works fine. I > > believe that Linux is trying to change the owner of the file after it > > creates it and it can't do that in a vfat. When writing to an existing > > file, the owner isn't changed. > > > > Joe > > I did make sure that my user profile does not have root authority. > > I have verified that Star Office gives me no trouble saving to my Windows > partition. On the other hand, both konqueror and gmc give me "change > permissions" errors when moving or copying files from Linux to Windows > partitions. But I can click OK, and the file is correctly moved/copied. > > I noticed that all my files and directories are owned by user root, and > have group root as well. However, the permissions bits are still 777 > (read/write/execute for owner/group/other), so it's not really an issue > that affects functionality for me. > > Sorry, at this point I am pretty much out of ideas, unless I go to the > docs. Might I suggest 'man fstab'? > > Dave
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