G'day!
If slackware was nice enough to mount it for you I guess it must have
made an fstab entry for it. Man fstab will send you off to man mount,
but if you bounce back and forth a few times, it is possible to figure
it out.
Since dos filesystems don't have any permission structure, it is not
possible to administer permissions on individual files and dirs in a fat
filesystem, but you can set the whole filesystem so it can be written by
one user, a group of users, or all users. Each filesystem that is
automounted is specified in the file /etc/fstab, and you can edit that
file to make it how you want. umount and remount the fs after making a
change.
/dev/<partition> /<mount
point> vfat(fat32?) auto,umask=0
allows any user to write any file on /<mount point>.
... auto,uid=sam,gid=system,umask=2
would make sam the owner of the fs, and allow any user in the system
group to write it.
I don't know samba, but if there are config scripts involved, anything
that bash touches that has a backslash needs two of them, like so \\,
for each one you want. Backslash is an escape character to bash, and
means to take the next character as itself and not interpret or process
it.
Lawson
>< Microsoft free environment
This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm using slackware linux 3.6, kernel 2.2.5, and this question
should be
> really easy, but I'm not getting it. Slackware is kind enough to mount
my dos
> partition under /msdos, however, only root can write to it. No one else
can do
> this. Can anyone help?
> I'm also having trouble configuring the smbclient to connect
with my 98 shares
> cross network. I'm getting the error:
> not enough backslashes in service name.
> Any assistance appreciated.
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>
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