> Did you look at section 4.9 "How do I change the permissions of a > mounted NTFS Volume?"? > > Paul. No I hadn't got down that far. I scanned quickly and saw that it was all NTFS related, and taking the warnings seriously I decided against messing with NTFS at all. I did go back now and read it however, especially the section you bookmarked. That plus reading 'man fstab' and 'man mount' finally got me a configuration that works as I want. For archive readers of this post the line in fstab that works is: /dev/hda6 /mnt/win vfat rw, uid=username, gid=username 0 0 Thanks for the help Paul! bob