In order to coordinate the Netscape address books in the Windows partition and
those on the Linux partition, I erased the files corresponding to the last ones
and substituted them with symlinks to the files existing in the Windows
partition.
It wasn't so smooth, but it finally worked.
Now, in the process of doing this napoleonic manoevre, I stumbled over
something that made me perplexed, and for which somebody has perhaps an
explanation.
All the files in the Windows partition belong to root and have mode: rwxr--r--.
When I work under Linux I work under username piero.
Since the changes in the addressbooks, that piero makes under Linux, have to be
reflected on the Windows partition files, I logged in as root, and tried to
change the permissions of these files (chmod o+w filename). Impossible. I
tried the to change their ownership: impossible. I finally modified /etc/fstab,
in such a way that piero has the ownership of all the files in the Windows
partition (uid=piero's user number).
This made the think work, but I do not find it satisfactory. Does anybody know
what prevents root form changing permission or ownership of the files belonging
to the Windows partition?
