Civileme....I thought that there was a problem when the mount
point contained uppercase characters? At least this is what I
remember when we were discussing the prevention of lockups when
accessing vfat partitions a couple of months ago.
Alan
Civileme wrote:
>
> 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
> +
>
> 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
