As well as adding rw, add 

uid=username,guid=groupname

so if my username is fred, it would be:

uid=fred,guid=users

I think that should do it.

On Tuesday 29 January 2002 11:19 pm, Marcus wrote:
> The other post-installation problem is that I can't write to the
> Windows (FAT) drives. I changed /etc/fstab to "rw" for all vfat drives,
> but no joy.
>
> Somebody suggested: chown -R users /mnt/hdX
>
> However, that operation was not allowed (as root).
>
> I guess most people must have faced this one, but I haven't found an
> answer yet. Any more ideas?
>
> 2) The NTFS drives appear "locked", no read access. How do permissions
> need changing to allow reading for those?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcus
>
>
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