I experienced the same problem after installing Mandrake 7.0.2 and it had
nothing to do with the fstab settings. The problem was in the actual
permissions of the DOS hda1 mount point in the mount directory. The
permissions were set to:
owner - root rw
group - root r
I changed the group to user (there may be a way) and then I had no problem
writing to the windows partition. You need to be logged in as root to alter
the permission.
group - user rw
Nev ========================================
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Someone else on the list is attempting to dothe same thing as myself.
>
> Basically, root has the ability to write files back to my DOS partitions,
> whereas 'steve', my normal user does not.
>
> This is very incovenient as it means I have to run my distributed.net
> client under root to allow it to write back to the buff-out file (located
> in /mnt/D/Utilities/distributed.net/).
>
> I'd like to do two things:
>
> Give 'steve' permission to write to this drectory. My attempts at chmod'ing
> permisions to rwxrwxrwx as root have failed - no change in permissions.
>
> Run dnetc (the distributed.net client) from the user 'steve' and have it
> run with root permisssions. I've chown'd it to root, I've performed a
> 'chmod +s dnetc' and I've changed the owner of the directory it live in to
> root. No joy - it still runs with 'steve' permissions. The only way I can
> get it to run with root's permissions is to su to root and then fire it up.
>
> I'm missing something obvious out, and I can't for the life of me, see it!
>
> Steve Flynn
> IBM MVS Operations Analyst
