On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 22:07 +0000, spamse wrote: > I have scoured the various posts on setting up a shared partition > several times, and manual documentation, and have succeeded in getting > the Windows partition accessible from Linux. I have achieved this by > the following entry in /etc/fstab: > > # the windows shared partition > /dev/hde5 /home/win vfat > async,user,exec,mode=777,unmask=000 > > However, the user logins are not automatically granted write > permissions. I am not entirely sure if I should be attempting to > retain Windows permissions, or simply override them in Linux. My > presumption here is that the mode variable should be giving full > permissions to all users. > > Sam > mode is unnecessary as vfat file system doesn't care about linux permissions. I assume you meant umask instead of unmask? Finally, move the mount point (/win) out of your home directory (which you are the only one with permissions) to /media or /mnt. HTH Scott -- Let the machine do the dirty work. -- "Elements of Programming Style", Kernighan and Ritchie
