Steven,

After the "850" in the vfat entry, add 

, umask=0

and life will be good again.

Miark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Spears" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Win Partition


> I'm getting errors when trying to write to the windows patition. I can do it 
> in root with no problems, which I didn't expect any, but I sitll can't write 
> from my user account. I tried playing around with the fstab file to no avail. 
> I've since added supermount which works great with my removable media, but I 
> would like to get this going. 
> 
> Here is my fstab file incase it might help:
> 
> /dev/hda5 / reiserfs notail 1 1
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda8 /home reiserfs notail 1 2
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/hdc,ro,nosuid,nodev,exec 
> 0 0
> /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0,nosuid,nodev, 0 0
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,codepage=850 0 0
> /dev/hde4 /mnt/zip auto 
> user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda7 /usr reiserfs notail 1 2
> /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
> 
> 
> I hope this helps. If anyone has any suggestions, please feel free to chime 
> in. And thanks for the help so far. 
> 
> Steven Spears
> 
> Linux Mandrake User
> 
> 
> 
> On Sunday 28 October 2001 08:50 pm, you wrote:
> > If your errors are only on creating files,  you are probably using the
> > default settings in /etc/fstab, your windows partition is mounting with
> > nosuid which means it shouldn't try to change the userid of any files it
> > creates.  Unfortunately, it appears to ignore this and tries to change the
> > owner and errors.  Even if you are in a group listed with access, it will
> > still use your user id as the owner and generate the number.    LM mounts
> > it originally as root, so that is the owner.  If you umount /mnt/windows
> > and then mount /mnt/windows, it should work.  You could also set it to not
> > auto mount and then manually mount it.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > On Sunday 28 October 2001 08:04 pm, you wrote:
> > > I've install 8.1 and have pretty good luck except for a few disappointing
> > > things. I'm having problems writing to my windows partion from within
> > > Linux. I've done nothing different than I did in 8.0 and it just doesn't
> > > seem to work. I have to be root to do it. I'm part of the root group, so
> > > it should let me in, right?
> > >
> > > Not sure what to do. I've made sure all of the permissions are set and
> > > the like, to no luck. Any help would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Steve Spears
> 
> 


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