Re: [newbie] Harddrive Access
On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote: I know this problem has been covered previously but I cannot find the references. Attached is my /etc/fstab. Mine: /dev/hda1 /c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdb3 /d vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 Yours: /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat users,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/DOS_hda5 vfat users,exec,conv=binary 0 0 On the 'cooker' list this comes up quite a bit. You should at least remove 'conv=binary', it causes problems on a lot of hardware. I believe if you replace it with 'umask=0' as mine is, you'll be able to read/write Windoze directories/files as user. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Harddrive Access
i beleive if you use "chmod", you can change the permissions of all your harddrives. but i'm not sure how to do it, at least for your computer. hope i helped a little. jd From: John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Harddrive Access Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 20:21:18 +1200 I know this problem has been covered previously but I cannot find the references. Attached is my /etc/fstab. I need to ne able to: A: Allow all users to access (read and Write) the Windows drives. Currently they are advised they don have any permissions. B: Be able to read/write the floppy drive in both filesystems Right now no user can read or write the drive at all. This includes the superuser. Message returned is: Could not list directory contents file:/mount/floppy This appears to have happened recently but I cannot find any sensible reason for it. Reading the manuals hasn't helped any. Cheers John /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat users,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/DOS_hda5 vfat users,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/dos vfat users,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb7 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount users,exec,dev,suid,rw,fs=auto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Harddrive Access
John Rye wrote: snip B: Be able to read/write the floppy drive in both filesystems Right now no user can read or write the drive at all. This includes the superuser. Message returned is: Could not list directory contents file:/mount/floppy /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount users,exec,dev,suid,rw,fs=auto 0 0 Thanks to Tom, the hard drive problem is sorted, Now for the floppy. Prior to a reinstall several weeks ago (hard-drive death), the floppy detected the filesystem type, it wasn until a couple of days ago that the present set of problems occurred (or became noticed). I still cannot access the floppy drive from Linux. I've messed with /etc/fstab, and /etc/filesystems as detailed in fstab(5) or mount(8). No success - so those files have been restored from the backup AGAIN!! Just as an aside - wouldn't it be great if the the man pages had a few examples grin Cheers John
