Re: Fat32 access

2003-01-27 Thread Robert Fisher
Yahoo. Thanks Tim, both of your suggestions work. Robert On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 10:12, Tim Wright wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Robert Fisher wrote: > > > I can use the following command (as root) to see my fat32 partition but > > only root has write access. > > > > mount /dev/hda2 /home/robert/

Re: Fat32 access

2003-01-27 Thread Col
It works for me, so I'm taking a guess. I suspect you remounted the drive logged on as root using the command you first quoted. "mount /dev/hda2 /home/robert/storage -t vfat" which seems to assign user and group of root ignoring what is in /etc/fstab instead try just "mount /dev/hda2" or "mount /h

Re: CLUG meeting tomorow night

2003-01-27 Thread Yuri de Groot
Apologies - I'm working to 9.30pm tomorrow night. Yuri

Re: Installfest Venue Arrangements

2003-01-27 Thread Zane Gilmore
Yeah, if you bring cake, I'll say thanks :-) On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 14:26, Yuri de Groot wrote: > >After some thought I think the 15th is probably the best, > > Do I get special treatment if I show up, seeing as it's my 30th birthday on > 15/3 ? > > Yuri -- Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer

Re: Installfest Venue Arrangements

2003-01-27 Thread Yuri de Groot
>After some thought I think the 15th is probably the best, Do I get special treatment if I show up, seeing as it's my 30th birthday on 15/3 ? Yuri

CLUG meeting tomorow night

2003-01-27 Thread Nick Elder
Just to confirm that the meeting is on for tomorrow night at 7:30PM Suggested agenda: Vote on motion that CLUG form an executive. And if passed by majority, then: Decide on how many committee members we should have. Nominate and establish people in these positions. Possibly discuss how CLUG and

Re: Fat32 access

2003-01-27 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:21:28AM +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > whats wrong with > grep nick /etc/passwd > nick:x:1000:100::/home/nick:/bin/bash > which means uid 1000, gid 100 What's wrong with ``id''? $ id uid=1000(kinetik) gid=1000(kinetik) groups=1000(kinetik), 0(wheel) Cheers, -mjg -- Matth

Installfest Venue Arrangements

2003-01-27 Thread Zane Gilmore
I have now spoken to both heads of both the Maths and the Computer Science departments. My boss the head of the IT dept has also agreed to the same arrangement as last time for internet bandwidth. My apologies for taking so long, I have had many other things on my plate. We now seem to be all g

Re: Fat32 access

2003-01-27 Thread Tim Wright
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Nick Rout wrote: > grep nick /etc/passwd > nick:x:1000:100::/home/nick:/bin/bash > > which means uid 1000, gid 100 nothing...it's a preference thing ("ls -land ~" has fewer characters to type). My solution relies that you own your own home directory, but I've never seen a con

Re: Fat32 access

2003-01-27 Thread Nick Rout
whats wrong with grep nick /etc/passwd nick:x:1000:100::/home/nick:/bin/bash which means uid 1000, gid 100 ?? On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:12:59 +1300 (NZDT) Tim Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ls -land ~ > > it'll give you a line like: > > drwxr-xr-x 105 45714950011864 2003-01-28

Re: Fat32 access

2003-01-27 Thread Tim Wright
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Robert Fisher wrote: > I can use the following command (as root) to see my fat32 partition but > only root has write access. > > mount /dev/hda2 /home/robert/storage -t vfat in /etc/fstab: /dev/hda2 /home/robert/storage vfat defaults,uid=45714 0 2 This automatically m

Re: executive committee - ideas for discussion

2003-01-27 Thread John S Veitch
Good Morning All I agree with Michael about the need for a formal committee and the need for some formal rules. In my view the committee needs to be larger than the one Michael suggests. Add officers for "New Members", "Education - Software" and "Education - Linux" that means nine people, plu

Re: KDE login manager on RedHat 8

2003-01-27 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Robert Fisher wrote: > In RedHat 8, although the KDE Control Centre Login Manager has all of > the options available, the Gnome Login manager seems to be the default. On _all_ recent redhats it seems to be the default and the annoying thing is that they change things all the

Re: Fat32 access

2003-01-27 Thread Robert Fisher
Thanks Gareth, Checked/etc/passwd and my uid is 500 I tried the following lines in fstab but still the same (no user write rights) /dev/hda2 /home/robert/storage vfat uid=500,gid=500,umask=007 0 0 /dev/hda2 /home/robert/storage vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0 0 /dev/hda2 /home/robert/storage vfat defaul

Re: Fat32 access

2003-01-27 Thread Gareth Williams
Chances are that they aren't. Have a look in /etc/passwd and see what the UID is for your regular user. Or, alternatively, just use the other option 'user' in /etc/fstab. Options like defaults,user,noauto are probably a good idea. Cheers, Gareth ps. as far as login managers go, there might be a

Re: Fat32 access

2003-01-27 Thread Robert Fisher
/dev/hda2 /home/robert/storage vfatuid=500,gid=500,umask=007 0 0 in the fstab file got the partition mounted OK but still no user write access. How do I know if these uid's are correct? Any more ideas? On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 19:53, Col wrote: > I use > /dev/hda1 /mnt/c vfatuser,noa