On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 21:49:38 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: >The "user" only has permission to write to the disk if he mounted it. >Fix your fstab option, unmount the drive, log in as "trevor" and mount >the drive as that user. You will then be able to write to it. Thanks, that is the trick. I wanted to have it automounted but instead I just created a new disc object on my desktop and that does all the auto-mounting for me. Just as good. >The access failure occurs because your file manager is trying to >preserve permissions. It copies the file (which is fine), then tries to >set the user/group and permissions on the new file which can't be done. > vfat doesn't store file owner/group or permissions. Right! Thanks for the explanation. That alleviates my worry about what was going wrong. -- Trevor Smith | trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
