On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:14:51 +1200
Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I seem to have lost write access to my folders (has been fine up
> to now).
> Looking in Konqueror the permissions for all the folders on the
> partition are shown as rwxrwxrwx, which I thought would be OK? (I
> don't know the command to show this). So it seems the permissions
> themselves are good, something else is going on.
My drive is mounted thus:
/dev/hda6 on /winshare type vfat (rw,umask=007,gid=1003)
My fstab reads:
/dev/hda6 /winshare vfat umask=007,gid=famten 0 0
N.B. the umask=007. I had the same problem till I sussed this one. I'm told that
this is specific to FAT mounts, to spoof enough permissions that aren't possible with
FAT.
The umask=007 combined with gid=1003 gives the owner and any member of group 1003 full
access, rest-of-the world none. use umask=000 for all access to everyone.
Thanks go to the kind soul who helped me out with a super-clear description.
--
Alasdair Tennant
Dunedin
New Zealand
