On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 16:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 25/01/2005 03:50:40 PM: > > > I have a vfat share from an NT box which has full perms on the box. > > > > I am mounting it as root with uid=0 and oid=0 and rw. > > > > The perms and ownerships look OK but I cannot write to it. > > > > What stupid thing may I have missed? > > > > What does "mount" tell you?
It mounts OK and everything looks kosher, but trying to write to it gets "Permission denied". > > I might be wrong about this, but isn't NT4 fat? (fat16 as apposed to > fat32) The kernel complains that fat is not supported and when I try vfat it can't find the special device (cos it's across a network) > > Perhaps mounting it as a fat filesystem might fix it? Didn't work, only smbmount or mount.smbfs works > > Cheers, > > Scott -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates; Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com> ------------------------------------------ "When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux; when you want a system that just works, you choose Microsoft." ------------------------------------------ "Flatter government, not fatter government; Get rid of the Australian states." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
