> > 2. If not, is a shared VFAT partition the best alternative? > > This is the best way anyway. > > > Now to the real problem. At the moment I am mounting the VFAT > > partition with an entry in fstab: > > /dev/hda6 /mnt/win vfat defaults 0 0 > > Heeding the many warnings on this list about newbies running as root I > > tried to run as my user account accessing the shared partition (where > > all of my shared workfiles are) but have no permissions because both > > owner and group of all files is 'root'. I have tried chown, chgrp, (as > > root) and anything else I can think of but that does not work, I > > believe due to it being a VFAT drive mounted by root. I have tried all > > ways I can think of to mount as a user, all give me access and > > permission warnings. So the last question: > > > > 3. How do I mount the VFAT partition so that an ordinary user can > > read/write to it? > > See http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#4.5 and the next > few entries in that section. > > Paul. Thanks for the info on NTFS Paul, I will stick with the shared VFAT partition which works well if I stay logged in as root. The link above doesn't answer my question number 3 however, which I believe is a *nix issue - how to mount the VFAT partition so that a non-root user has full permissions to read/write/execute the files? bob
