Chuck wrote: > I have a 300g drive with a vfat filesystem (created with mkfs.vfat) > that I write files (well I want to write files to) to from both > opensuse 10.3 and windows vista. (dual boot config, this filesystem is > never mounted to both at once) > > However, when booted into opensuse only root can write to the > filesystem and chmod has no effect. (For example chmod 777 > /mnt/data01/Documents (the mount point) appears to run successfully > because $? = 0, however the permissions are not changed) > > I did not see anywhere in vista where I could set permissions on the > directory as you could in XP. >
Vista (and XP is the same!!) cannot grant file access permissions to your drive because FAT does not support it. In order to get this for NT4/w2k/XP/Vista/2k03, you will need to use ntfs instead. kind regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
