Re: [newbie] Win partition write perm
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Win partition write perm
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? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Win partition write perm
On Jun 16, martin brandt had something to say about [newbie] Win partition... 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). Is the partiction FAT32 or NTFS? By default you cannot write to an NTFS partition from linux. -- mattwarden mattwarden.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Win partition write perm
Quoting Warden, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jun 16, martin brandt had something to say about [newbie] Win partition... 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). Is the partiction FAT32 or NTFS? By default you cannot write to an NTFS partition from linux. -- mattwarden mattwarden.com Oh yeah, no its FAT32 formatted. I formatted it under FAT32 specifically so i would be able to do this. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Win partition write perm
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. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * http://www.haulrich.net * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
