Hi Martin, You wrote:
> > For instance, users bernie and bobbern belong to group 'users'. If I set > > gid=100 (group 'users' gid) then user bernie cannot, say, copy files to > > the mounted msdos partition. But if I set gid=1000 (user 'bernie' gid), > > then bernie can copy files to the mounted partition. In both cases I use > > a mount option 'umask=002', which gives 'group' permission to create and > > delete files, does it not? > > It should work. You did check, that "bernie" is really a member of group > users? Stupid me; what I didn't check is whether files were actually being copied to the target msdos dir (in this case '/opendos/'). They are being copied! But cp gives me a message to the contrary, for instance: bernie$ cp newsgroups /opendos/ cp: /opendos/newsgroups: Operation not permitted But the file newsgroups is there in /opendos/! And, no, it isn't a question of legal dos filenames, as I've checked this with files conforming to 8.3 dos convention. I scoured the man page for cp, but to no avail. Can I alias cp with an option to not produce this meaningless message? But where does it come from?? /s Confused in Rhode Island <g> --------------------------------------------------- Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Esmond, R.I. <http://www.brainiac.com/bernie> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .