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DATE: Thu, 6 May 2004 19:28:24 From: Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: >On Thursday 06 May 2004 10:22 am, D Hoyem wrote: >> Hi All, >> I have a dual boot system (Windows Millennium/Testing) on my HP >> laptop. I would like the user (me) to have access to the Windows >> folder. During setup I mounted it as /Win_c. When I do a ls -l it >> shows the owner as root and the group as root. I have adduser >> <username> to root and that didn't work. I have tried to do chgrp and >> the error message is "Changing group of /Win_c Operation not >> permitted". My /etc/fstab looks like this /dev/hda2 /Win_c >> vfat defaults 0 2 >> I have changed it to >> /dev/hda2 /Win_c vfat rw,user 0 0 >> And that didn't do anything. >snip > >Its the vfat filesystem, it doesn't support what you are trying to do. >You can use 'umask' in your ~/fstab file to let set access for Debian >users. i.e. >/dev/sdd1 /mnt/usb vfat umask=000,user,noauto 0 0 > >The umask=000 is a not necessarily the best way,(full access for everyone) you can >use uid & gid. I set the pass to 0 so there would be not attempt at checking the vfat >file system. >-- >Greg Madden >Debian GNU/Linux User > > Thanks that worked... ____________________________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
