I tried the umask=000, which worked, I was sure that , it was due to
umask, but didnt know fstab has the facility to give it.
Thanks a ton for the help.

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:02 PM, et <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>     I had the same problem. It always showed a 'permission denied'
> error while trying to execute files in fat and ntfs partitions.
> Anyways after some editing over the fstab entries, i could
> successfully run files on any partition.
>
>  Here is an example entry from my current fstab file. (I'm also using
> Ubuntu 9.10) :
>
>        /dev/sda1   /media/M$   ntfs-3g
> defaults,user,exec,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=000   0   0
>        /dev/sda5   /media/MEDIA   vfat
> defaults,user,exec,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=000    0   0
>
>  As you can see, the same properties work for both fat and ntfs file
> systems. Try these exact settings.
>
>
>
> On Feb 28, 8:23 pm, Shino Jacob <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>  I am not able to set chmod in my FAT and ntfs file system.
>> Whatever I set is not reflected. I tried to umask to 0000, but still same.
>> I am using ubuntu 9.1
>> Is there any additional change in fstab entries?
>>
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