On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:57:29 +1200 Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 15 June 2007 5:50 pm, Reg wrote: > > Nick Rout wrote: > > > Well it is clearly mounted read/write (rw) so it is more likely a > > > permissions thing. Who owns the files? Try ls -l /music and see who > > > owns the files. > > > > if I enter that command I get: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls -l /music > > total 96 > > dr-xr-xr-x 149 root root 32768 2007-06-14 17:27 My Music > > If you are the only one using the computer then I would, as root, type.... > > chmod -R 777 /music/My Music/ > > (To be root, type "su -" then press enter then enter root password) > > There may be plenty who would advise against my suggestion so maybe give it a > while to wait for others to respond. > > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 32768 2007-06-14 18:44 Recycled > > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 32768 2007-06-14 17:27 System Volume Information > > > > > > reg > Are you sure? These files are on a fat32 partition, and as such there is no concept of MACs, let alone anything complicated like DACs. You need to look at the mount command for the ntfs command and understand what the options uid, gid and umask actually mean, and then you can set up the access that you want. The gentoo wiki is a good place, as ever, to start... http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mount_Windows_partitions_(DOS,_FAT,_NTFS) Steve
