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since its a windoze partition(vfat), try the umask option.
so the "auto,owner,user" becomes "auto,owner,user,umask=0" .
setting umask=0 gives 777 perms to all files, which might not be a good idea.
check the manpages :-)
--gera.
> Hello,
>
> i currently have rhl 7.3 installed on my system.
> i added the foll line to "/etc/fstab"
> "/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat auto,owner,user 0 0"
> this change mounts the win partition in the partition in the
> directory /mnt/win with the permissions 755 & root as the owner so
> that no other user gets the write permission
> but i want to give write permission to my normal user account so
> i tried the foll line
> "/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat auto,owner,user,rw 0 0"
> but it does not work
> so i tried adding the foll line to "/etc/rc.d/rc.local"
> "chmod -R 777 /mnt/win"
> this only increased my boot up time, but did not solve the problem
>
> this way i have to log in as the root 2 do even small changes
> am facing a lot of problems this way
>
> plz help!!
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