#! On Fri, Aug 10, 2001, Bob Koss wrote: This is goung nucleur but on the assumption you don't have many other users, do it and then subtract permissions afterwards.
chown -R wife /mnt/dosE Mount the FAT partition and repeat the command. Log in as your wife and enter: cp /etc/lilo.conf /mnt/dosE It should work in that she should be able to write to that directory. If you still can't do it, su - root and chmod -R 777 /mnt/dosE. Now you will be able to do it :-) > >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 > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Patrick "sig free and joyful"" Kirk GSM: +44 7876 560 646 ICQ: 42219699
