On 3/9/06, James Wilkinson <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Andy Goss wrote: > > I had this problem [not being able to write to a Windows filesystem] > > after upgrading my wife's 98SE to XP. I had to set permissions on XP. > > I forget the detail, but it was not too hard to find. > > That sounds like you've got two different computers -- hers and yours, > and you're doing filesharing across the network. Which is a different > kettle of fish: FAT32 has no permissions worth speaking of. > Well, nothing granular, but per file and directory write only are honoured by the vfat module, and there are the umask mount options. But it does sound like J Wilkinson is talking about windows filesharing/samba if changing something in XP allows Linux to access it. -- imalone
