On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Maurizio Firmani wrote:
>
> On mar, 09 mar 1999, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> >
> > Ah!!! You need to know the magical incantation to put into the fstab entry. It's
> > "umask=0".
> >
> > If you want to access it over a LAN, you need even more magic:
> > uid=65534,gid=65534. (It took me quite a while to guess that one.)
> >
> > As they used to say in grad school: "intuitively obvious to the most casual
> > observer". :=)
> >
> > Paul
>
> Actually I tried to put umask=000 to the fstab with no success. I just put it
> again into my fstab which looks like:
>
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/msdos vfat noauto,user,umask=0 0 0
>
> # mount /mnt/msdos
> # mount
> #/dev/hda1 on /mnt/msdos type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,umask=0)
> # ls /mnt/msdos
> # ls: /mnt/msdos: Permission denied
>
> Can you send me a copy of your fstab or write down the line I'm interested to?
>
> TIA
>
> Maurizio
> -
/dev/hda1 /cdisk msdos rw,auto,umask=000 0 0
Hi Maurizio,
Here's a copy of my fstab line. I bet that your problem is that you did
not put in "rw" for read write.
BTW, where in Italy are you? I'm looking for someone living in Southern
Italy or Sicily. My wife and I are thinking about moving where it's warmer
than South Germany. :)
Hope this helps!
J
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