Hi Rod, Although I did get it work, for my purposes ftp-ing data to/from the linux partition suited my purposes better, so I no longer have a working fstab entry that I can check.
According to my diary entry on the day that I got this working, it was after several attempts, having mis-typed "umask" as "unmask" and "user" as "users" (or was it the other way around?). To make matters worse, several online articles made similar mistakes. I noted in my diary that "the man page for mount is correct" but I know I pasted the incorrect fstab entry into my diary (which is why I sent you to the linuxform tutorial rather than quote the entry in my diary). > I have now done this several different ways following > different people's suggestions. I'm wondering whether the > problem lies in some area slightly away from where I'm > looking ? Something else that has to be correct or "switched > on" or whatever ? I haven't spent much time on linux to date, so it could well be something beyond my limited experience. But what experience I do have suggests that getting the fstab entry right is all that's needed. Adelle. > On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 04:37 +1000, Adelle Hartley wrote: > > I have successfully gained non-root access to a vfat > partition using > > the instructions on this page: > > > > http://www.linuxforum.com/linux_tutorials/14/1.php > > > > Since vfat doesn't support per-user permissions, the > permissions are > > the same for every user. > > > > Adelle. > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
