On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 21:20, Trevor Smith wrote: > /dev/hda5 /mnt/win2k vfat defaults,users,exec,dev,suid,uid=27,gid=27 0 0 > > This seemed to make linux happy and now I can access the files and write new > data with MySQL in linux and Win2k. > > BUT, now linux doesn't want me to write files to that partition as a regular > user. Only MySQL and root can write to it, apparently. here is how I set up my fstab to mount the fat32 partition read-write for all users: /dev/hdb5 /mnt/winshared vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,auto,async,umask=000 1 2 hope that was what you were looking for. -- Keith Morris <graphicsguy@xxxxxxxxxxx>