Manuel Castelao wrote:
>
> Is it possible to give write permission for other file systems (located
> in other Win95/DOS disks) to standard users, members of the root group?
> I have been trying without any success. As root I can move files from my
> ext2 disks to my Win95/DOS disks but as standard user it has been
> impossible. I had to use the superuser file manager.
> Manuel Castelao
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Yes
As root, click on DrakConf->linuxconf->filesystems->local file
system
When the names are displayed, click on the one you want to
inspect and change it. You will be given a tabbed dislog box of
options....
Make sure it is user-mountable
Make sure read-only is UNchecked
MAKE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that conversion is set to something other
than AUTO--no one has been able to get that one to work properly
yet Recommend conversion set to binary.
Now for the hearty ones out there, you can do this
edit /etc/fstab and make the windows mount lines look like this
/dev/hda1 /mnt/WindriveC vfat
exec,user,nosuid,rw,umask=0,conv=binary 1 1
Of course the exact language may vary. hda1 is the first
partition on the primary master IDE drive, hdb2 is the second
partition on the Primary slave, /dev/sda1 would be used for the
first partition on the first SCSI hard disk drive, and so on.
and /mnt/WindriveC could be an empty directory on any mounted
filesystem. In one case, for one user, I set up the mount point
as
/home/username/Desktop/Windows_files
and made the directory on the user desktop (that's no longer
necessary in 7.0-2 since the DOS_hda1 icon is on the desktop, but
for my users, I renamed it to "Windows".) They still have some
files there not yet converted.
Civileme
