On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 13:15 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 23:39 +0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hi people > > > > is it possible for a server to mount a unmounted ( on client m/c) > > partition on client only as user on the client has no root access to do > > this > > Of course. Just add "user" into the options column in fstab. This will > allow normal users to mount the partition designated by that entry > in /etc/fstab. See google for more information and examples. > > Note that if the partition is fat32 or ntfs, this will mount the > partition such that all files are owned by that user who mounted it. If > you mount a file system that has unix semantics, regular permissions and > ownerships will be enforced regardless of who mounted the partition.
If you need a fat32 or ntfs partition to be accessible to all users you can add the umask option in your fstab line. I believe you have to do umask=0 to make the files rwxrwxrwx. Greg > > Michael > > > > > please reply > > > > thanks in advance > > > > > > -nikhil > > > > > > .===================================. > > | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | > > | Don't Fear the Penguin. | > > | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | > > `===================================' .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
