> That - of course - triggered my filthy phantasy. I tried to=20 > become root and change the permissions by issuing the=20 > command : chmod 777 * .
That's because FAT32 doesn't implement permissions the same way - so a chmod wouldn't have any effect, and the permissions only reflect how the device was originally mounted.
FAT32 in and of itself doesn't have permissions - at least they aren't built into the filesystem in the same way that Linux and other Unix systems do (at the inode level). Nevertheless, it is possible - even with Windows 95 to set up private and public spaces (aka drives). I've seen it done when I used to work at the local Census office here. We had a network of some 20-odd PCs all running Windows 95 - and a big server running NT. Of course, all this smoke and mirrors we had set up probably was courtesy of NT and Novell and not 95 specifically. But we were able to login at any workstation and attach our "private" drive or store files in a "public" area. I wasn't involved in IT there so I don't really know how it was done -- but I"m sure it would have been easier to do it in Unix :).
> Kaj Haulrich.
NT doesn't use FAT32 - it uses NTFS - which does support security at node level.
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