Joan,
Since the files reside on a FAT32 filesystem you shouldn't have to worry
about permissions as long as all files are read/write.
Actually, your story confuses me a little -- I'm not sure where the files
reside. Are they on the students computer on a FAT32 filesystem? Are
they on a Linux computer on FAT32? If the student can't read the files
let us know -- it's generally easy to reset permissions (unless explorer
crashes when trying to take ownership -- but that's a whole other story).
I have a Windows XP system at the University if she needs an emergency
solution.
Happy new year!
- Sebastian
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Joan Leach wrote:
Hi,
Hope your Holidays have been fun, and the New Year
good to all of us.
Now to the dilemma: One high school student wanted to
upgrade her Windows and didn't know about nasty M$
Validation. She has a project due in one week. I
pulled an all-nighter putting her hard drive in my
P4-WinXP box as slave for all the virus and malware
scanning. I was able to back up some of her documents
to my box, but her Favorites, Address Book, plus some
others wouldn't. I had to wait for HP Restore CDs and
today they arrived.
I grabbed a few new toys: An AC powered USB hub and
an adapter that lets internal IDE drives work off USB.
Thanks to PCLinuxOS P-92 LiveCD I have them on a
Fat32 formatted hard drive. Now do I need to do
anything to the files in Linux with permissions or
attributes to be sure they will be readable in WinXP
Home. They were just in the "Owner" part of Documents
and Settings, but I may have made a different Admin
password. Will that make any difference?
Jog my memory, so I don't get buried in Google Linux
or my older Red Hat books trying to figure it out at
the last minute. She's expecting to pick it up today.
Thanks so much,
Joan
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