> I've been struggling for the last few days trying to get my wife's > Win95 laptop to access her Quicken files that I have on a fat16 > partition on my linux machine. There is something about 'mount' that > is eluding me.
it's been eluding me a couple of times too... vfat just doesn't have the place to store owner, group and full permissions needed by unix filesystems! so chmod or chown on a vfat partition are basically meaningless. you can set owner and permissions for the whole filesystem with vfat specific mount options: see man mount to see them all; you'll probably need umask. hope it helps! pietro.