On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 04:35 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Wednesday 16 June 2004 19:12, martin brandt wrote: > > Arg! This is hell. > > I have been trying to obtain write permission on my windows > > storage partition. I have tried chown-ing in a console (in su), i > > have tried changing via properties whilst logged in as root, i > > have tried in Control centre/security/DrakePerm by adding a new > > rule, modifying the current rule (which i shouldnt be able to do > > i think i read somewhere). > > > > What am i doing wrong? Everytime i make the changes, they seem to > > be over written again, back to the old settings. > > > > I have entry, execute and write for User, but not for Group or > > other. The owner is 'root' group 'root', although if it was i > > would be able to change the permissons. I think it is some sort > > of windows permissions that are stopping me, as i have had the > > same problem before. > > > > I need write permission. Is there anyway to edit the permission > > settings manually, like in an fstab type file? > > To me it looks like you are getting patronized by msec, which has a > tendency of "bessermachen", at least if your security setting is > "higher" and especially "paranoid". Every now and then msec checks > permissions, and if it finds something slightly out of the usual, > it changes permissions back. So, maybe changing your security > setting to "high" or "standard" will settle things. > > On the other hand, if your windows partition is listed in > your /etc/fstab, it should contain "umask=0", something like : > > /dev/hda4 /data vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 > > that way it will mount chmod 777 every time. > > HTH > > Kaj Haulrich.
Maybe Kaj has it right, because I have windows FAT32 partitions to share with windows on my laptop and there is no problem writing to them. There is no way that the ownership can be changed, but they are open to be written to from Linux or the dark side. This has always been the case on the desktops as well, though it has been some time that I had a dual boot system. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 ------------------------------- A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. What are threescore years and ten hurriedly and coarsely lived to moments of divine leisure in which your life is coincident with the life of the universe? .............................Henry David Thoreau _______________________________ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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