Users unable to write to mounted FAT32 partition

2007-03-02 Thread Michael G.
OK, I've scoured the archives for an answer with no results. I'm sharing a FAT32 partition between XP and 6.2 Release. The problem is I can mount the drive but only root can write to it (users can just read). I have the following in fstab: /dev/asd42/mydosmsdosfs rw 0

Re: Users unable to write to mounted FAT32 partition

2007-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:14:14PM -0600, Michael G. wrote: OK, I've scoured the archives for an answer with no results. I'm sharing a FAT32 partition between XP and 6.2 Release. The problem is I can mount the drive but only root can write to it (users can just read). I have the

Re: Users unable to write to mounted FAT32 partition

2007-03-02 Thread Michael G.
Jerry, Owner of /mydos is root and Group is wheel. User has rwx while Group and Other only have r-x M.G. Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:14:14PM -0600, Michael G. wrote: OK, I've scoured the archives for an answer with no results. I'm sharing a FAT32 partition

Re: Users unable to write to mounted FAT32 partition

2007-03-02 Thread Chris Hill
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Michael G. wrote: Owner of /mydos is root and Group is wheel. User has rwx while Group and Other only have r-x Well, there it is. I think users who want to write to this filesystem need to have write permission on the mountpoint. How about creating a group, perhaps

Re: Users unable to write to mounted FAT32 partition

2007-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 07:30:50PM -0500, Chris Hill wrote: On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Michael G. wrote: Owner of /mydos is root and Group is wheel. User has rwx while Group and Other only have r-x Well, there it is. I think users who want to write to this filesystem need to have write

Re: Users unable to write to mounted FAT32 partition

2007-03-02 Thread Michael G.
Chris, A mod of your suggestion did the trick. I was unable to finally chown Michael /mydos and then change permissions using chmod. Seems pretty simple but kinda strange that as root I could not change the permissions. Thanks to you and Jerry for all the help! Michael G. Chris Hill