It is truly a fat/fat32 formatted drive. Mac --- Clif Smith <fedora@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Using vfat as the filesystem only works if the > filesystem is truly > fat/fat32. Is the filesystem possibly NTFS? > > cjs > > Mac wrote: > > >Thank you for the suggestion but, alas, it did not > >solve the problem. It still won't automatically > mount > >the windows drive in gnome (I can still do it as > root) > >and in KDE I can't do it at all. > > > > > >--- Dylan Parry <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >>On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 08:28:51 -0700 (PDT), Mac > >><mrmack1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>I have been unable to automatically mount the > >>> > >>> > >>Windows > >> > >> > >>>directory in FC2. When FC2 is loading I get this > >>>failure message: > >>> > >>> > >>I have the following in my fstab: > >> > >>/dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows vfat > >>auto,users,gid=windows,umask=0007 0 0 > >> > >>and a group called "windows", which contains all > the > >>users that I want to > >>be able to write to the Windows partition. I > >>originally had this in RH7.3 > >>(8.0, 9, FC1) and it still works now in FC2, so it > >>seems pretty future > >>proof :) > >> > >>Of course, you would have to change hdb1 to match > >>whatever yours is, and > >>remember to create a "windows" group with your > >>username in it... > >> > >>-- > >>Dylan Parry > >>http://www.webpageworkshop.co.uk - FREE Web > >>tutorials and references > >> > >> > >>-- > >>fedora-list mailing list > >>fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >>To unsubscribe: > >> > >> > >http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > > > > > > > >__________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. > >http://messenger.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/
