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 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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