Thanks, but it did not work. Attached is a composite file with my fstab, auto.master, and auto.mnt files. Any suggestions are appreciated. Also thanks to John Aldrich who also answered with a simular suggestion. Joe > -----Original Message----- > From: Merell L. Matlock, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 1:19 PM > To: Joseph T. Tannenbaum > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: fstab rw for usr on vfat > > > * Joseph T. Tannenbaum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [000625 14:36]: > > > When you find out, let me know. I went round and > > round with automount to see what I could do and > > nothing seems to work. Users can read win/dos > > disks, but not write. Root can do anything. > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > > The fstab entry looks like this: > > > /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos1 vfat > > > noauto,user,dev,exec,suid,rw,perm=664,quiet 0 0 > > What about plain noauto,user,rw? > > Works for me. > > Merell > > -- > Merell L. Matlock, Jr. When crypto is outlawed, only outlaws > Linux#: 149839 and politicians will have crypto. > The *TRUE* meaning of the universe: > perl -e 'print$i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10); ' >
/etc/fstab /dev/hdb7 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb3 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb10 /download ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb9 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/newwin vfat noauto,user,rw 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/temp vfat noauto,user,rw 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win95 vfat noauto,user,rw 0 0 /dev/hdb8 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto,user 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 auto.master: # $Id: auto.master,v 1.2 1997/10/06 21:52:03 hpa Exp $ # Sample auto.master file # Format of this file: # mountpoint map options # For details of the format look at autofs(8). /mnt /etc/auto.mnt --timeout 60 auto.mnt # $Id: auto.misc,v 1.2 1997/10/06 21:52:04 hpa Exp $ # This is an automounter map and it has the following format # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location # Details may be found in the autofs(5) manpage redhat -ro,soft,intr ftp.redhat.com:/pub kernel -ro,soft,intr ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux cdrom -fstype=iso9660,ro :/dev/cdrom # the following entries are samples to pique your imagination #floppy -fstype=auto :/dev/fd0 floppy -fstype=vfat,user,rw :/dev/fd0 #e2floppy -fstype=ext2 :/dev/fd0 #jaz -fstype=ext2 :/dev/sdc1 newwin -fstype=vfat,user,rw :/dev/hdb1 win95 -fstype=vfat,user,rw :/dev/hda1 temp -fstype=vfat,user,rw :/dev/hdb5
