On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, hwert wrote:

> in some instances), but not all. A good example is my parallel port Zip
> drive. When the iomega (linux) mount command is given for instance, it
> overrides my linux permissions and mounts it as "root read/write/execute,
> user r/x" instead of my linux permissions of "root read/write/execute, user
> r/w".  Consequently, I can "read" fine in win4lin but can't "write" to the
> zip drive.

How are you mounting the Zip drive? Can't you specify the appropriate
modes as mount options? Alternatively, if you add the zip device to the
fstab and allow ordinary users to mount it, you could mount it as the same
(non-root) user that you run Win4Lin as.

Does that make any sense? :)

-- 
Jonathan Paisley
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