It works for me, so I'm taking a guess.
I suspect you remounted the drive logged on as root using the
command you first quoted.
"mount /dev/hda2 /home/robert/storage -t vfat"
which seems to assign user and group of root ignoring what is
in /etc/fstab
instead try just
"mount /dev/hda2"
or
"mount /home/robert/storage"
Col.
Robert Fisher wrote:
Thanks Gareth,
Checked/etc/passwd and my uid is 500
I tried the following lines in fstab but still the same (no user write
rights)
/dev/hda2 /home/robert/storage vfat uid=500,gid=500,umask=007 0 0
/dev/hda2 /home/robert/storage vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0 0
/dev/hda2 /home/robert/storage vfat defaults,user,noauto 0 0 0
Regarding the login manager, your suggestion of looking in the prefdm
file suggested I try adding DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" to
/etc/sysconfig/desktop and Voila, that is sorted.
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 22:39, Gareth Williams wrote:
Chances are that they aren't. Have a look in /etc/passwd and see what the UID
is for your regular user. Or, alternatively, just use the other option 'user'
in /etc/fstab. Options like defaults,user,noauto are probably a good idea.
Cheers,
Gareth
ps. as far as login managers go, there might be a file on redhat systems (from
memory, I don't use it ;) in somewhere like /etc/X11 called 'prefdm'
(something like /etc/X11/prefdm I *think*, you might have to search for it,
not sure... somewhere under /etc though, I'm fairly sure) which is actually a
symlink to your *dm of choice (kdm / gdm / xdm) - if it points to gdm, try
changing it to point to kdm (wherever it resides), that might do the trick.
Just a thought.
On Monday 27 January 2003 22:21, Robert Fisher wrote:
/dev/hda2 /home/robert/storage vfat uid=500,gid=500,umask=007 0 0
in the fstab file got the partition mounted OK but still no user write
access.
How do I know if these uid's are correct?
Any more ideas?
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 19:53, Col wrote:
I use
/dev/hda1 /mnt/c vfat user,noauto 0 0
when I want to manually mount
or
/dev/hda1 /mnt/c vfat uid=500,gid=500,umask=007 0 0
(adjust user and group id accordingly)
Col.
Robert Fisher wrote:
I am sure I have done this before but at the moment I am having
trouble.
I can use the following command (as root) to see my fat32 partition but
only root has write access.
mount /dev/hda2 /home/robert/storage -t vfat
or in fstab...
/dev/hda2 /storage vfat rw 0 0 0
How do I get user write access to the fat32 drive?
Robert
