Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives

2003-06-04 Thread The Other
06/03/03 Hello Stephen, SAMBA is for networking, not for localised file mounting/browsing. The only 'networking' I do is by 56K modem to the Internet. Do I have any reason to have SAMBA and/or NFS installed? If not, I'll remove the packages. Thanks, The Other Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives

2003-06-04 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 22:45, The Other wrote: 06/03/03 Hello Aldolfo, Stephen, From a terminal window as root (or SuperUser) I can use 'ls' to view the files on the FAT32 drives. So the problem must lie in the Open dialog windows of the programs I'm running under KDE 3.1. Any

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives

2003-06-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 03 Jun 2003 4:22 am, The Other wrote: On Monday 02 June 2003 10:14 pm, The Other wrote: 6/02/03 Hello Aldofo, Mount it as a vfat file system. Here is my /etc/fstab entry for the fat drive: /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives

2003-06-04 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 22:52, The Other wrote: Hello Stephen, SAMBA is for networking, not for localised file mounting/browsing. The only 'networking' I do is by 56K modem to the Internet. Do I have any reason to have SAMBA and/or NFS installed? If not, I'll remove the packages. Remove them

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives

2003-06-04 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 08:45, The Other wrote: 06/03/03 Hello Aldolfo, Stephen, From a terminal window as root (or SuperUser) I can use 'ls' to view the files on the FAT32 drives. So the problem must lie in the Open dialog windows of the programs I'm running under KDE 3.1. Any

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives Solved

2003-06-04 Thread The Other
06/03/03 On Tuesday 03 June 2003 08:06 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: I read somewhere that leaving out the umask=0 could cause that sort of problem on fat drives. Have you tried adding the umask=0 option to the /etc/fstab file? After doing so, just umount /mnt/win_c followed by mount /mnt/win_c.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives

2003-06-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 2:45 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Tuesday 03 Jun 2003 6:31 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Seems to me that the partitions are mountedm but not with user accessbility. You need to add 'user' as in: /dev/hdf6 /mnt/OldData vfat user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives Solved

2003-06-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 5:20 am, The Other wrote: 06/03/03 On Tuesday 03 June 2003 08:06 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: I read somewhere that leaving out the umask=0 could cause that sort of problem on fat drives. Have you tried adding the umask=0 option to the /etc/fstab file? After doing

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives

2003-06-03 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 22:38, The Other wrote: 06/02/03 Hello All, How do I get Mandrake 9.1 to read my Windows files on FAT drives? During the first time through Configuration Mount Points of Mandrake Control Center, I selected both SMB and NFS file systems in the hopes that SMB

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives

2003-06-03 Thread The Other
6/02/03 Hello Aldofo, Mount it as a vfat file system. Here is my /etc/fstab entry for the fat drive: /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 I'm totally new to Linux. So bear with me. 1. I don't have a directory /etc/fstab on my system. So I don't know

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives

2003-06-03 Thread The Other
On Monday 02 June 2003 10:14 pm, The Other wrote: 6/02/03 Hello Aldofo, Mount it as a vfat file system. Here is my /etc/fstab entry for the fat drive: /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 I'm totally new to Linux. So bear with me. 1. I don't

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives

2003-06-03 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 23:22, The Other wrote: On Monday 02 June 2003 10:14 pm, The Other wrote: 6/02/03 Hello Aldofo, Mount it as a vfat file system. Here is my /etc/fstab entry for the fat drive: /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives

2003-06-03 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 12:38, The Other wrote: 06/02/03 Hello All, How do I get Mandrake 9.1 to read my Windows files on FAT drives? During the first time through Configuration Mount Points of Mandrake Control Center, I selected both SMB and NFS file systems in the hopes that SMB

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives

2003-06-03 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 13:14, The Other wrote: 1. I don't have a directory /etc/fstab on my system. So I don't know how to make a comparable entry. /etc/fstab is a text file - /etc is the directory, fstab is the file. -- Tue Jun 3 13:55:00 EST 2003 13:55:00 up 3 days, 23:04, 3 users,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives

2003-06-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 05:14, The Other wrote: 2. If I go to the Mandrake Control Center, Select the Mount Points tab, and then select one of the Windows FAT drives: a) I can Unmount the drive. (And all of them are FAT32 drives) b) If I go to Expert Mode, and select Type to change it

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives

2003-06-03 Thread The Other
06/03/03 Hello Aldolfo, Stephen, From a terminal window as root (or SuperUser) I can use 'ls' to view the files on the FAT32 drives. So the problem must lie in the Open dialog windows of the programs I'm running under KDE 3.1. Any thoughts about that? Or is it a file sharing problem I'm