Re: [newbie] Write permissions for other filesystems

2000-04-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
ChrisOff the top of my head I remember that when the name of the directory that served as the mount point for windows partitions contained uppercase letters and you used kfm to try and access these directories (if you accessed them in a console, this didn't happen) that the system would lock

[newbie] Write permissions for other filesystems

2000-04-23 Thread Manuel Castelao
Is it possible to give write permission for other file systems (located in other Win95/DOS disks) to standard users, members of the root group? I have been trying without any success. As root I can move files from my ext2 disks to my Win95/DOS disks but as standard user it has been impossible. I

Re: [newbie] Write permissions for other filesystems

2000-04-23 Thread Civileme
Manuel Castelao wrote: Is it possible to give write permission for other file systems (located in other Win95/DOS disks) to standard users, members of the root group? I have been trying without any success. As root I can move files from my ext2 disks to my Win95/DOS disks but as standard

Re: [newbie] Write permissions for other filesystems

2000-04-23 Thread Alan Shoemaker
CivilemeI thought that there was a problem when the mount point contained uppercase characters? At least this is what I remember when we were discussing the prevention of lockups when accessing vfat partitions a couple of months ago. Alan Civileme wrote: Manuel Castelao wrote: Is

Re: [newbie] Write permissions for other filesystems

2000-04-23 Thread Manuel Castelao
Thank you for your quick response. I am using automount at startup. I have visited my current configuration through DrakConf and everything is OK: the disks are user-mountable, read-only is unchecked and conversion is binary. Please note that the "no setuid programs allowed" is checked for

Re: [newbie] Write permissions for other filesystems

2000-04-23 Thread Necrotica
Alan, Interesting that you brought this up. I just noticed today that my system seems a little flaky when accessing my Windows partion under Linux. It has been locking up solid and the only common thread I could think of was that I was accessing my Windows partition at the time. Based on your