I've been struggling for the last few days trying to get my wife's Win95 laptop to access her Quicken files that I have on a fat16 partition on my linux machine. There is something about 'mount' that is eluding me.
This was working fine in RH for years. When I changed to Debian last week, it stopped working. Samba seems to work fine. I can access files in users home directories from the windows machine. It's the vfat mounted partition that's giving me access fits. The mount point for the fat16 partition is /mnt/dosE, and its permissions are: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -al /mnt total 19 drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 1024 Aug 8 10:52 . drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1024 Aug 8 01:18 .. drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1024 Aug 8 03:34 dosE drwx------ 93 500 500 15360 Aug 10 07:06 thinkpad [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Mounting the fat16 partition changes the permissions: bear:/home/rskoss# mount -t vfat /dev/hda6 /mnt/dosE bear:/home/rskoss# ls -al /mnt total 34 drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 1024 Aug 8 10:52 . drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1024 Aug 8 01:18 .. drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 dosE drwx------ 93 500 500 15360 Aug 10 07:06 thinkpad bear:/home/rskoss# The man page for mount says that rw permission is the default. I've tried combinations of -o rw, -w, and nothing seems to work. Is there a bug or am I not understanding something about mount? -- Robert Koss, Ph.D. | Training, Mentoring, Contract Development Senior Consultant | Object Oriented Design, C++, Java www.objectmentor.com | Extreme Programming
