On Tuesday 12 March 2013 18:58:16 John L. Cunningham wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 05:31:57PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > The Verbatim belongs to User, and needs to function on his box. But it > > cannot be written to from his box, even as root, and returns "access > > denied" to most files and directories that I try to copy over. > > What is the filesystem on the drive? Sounds like NTFS, and it's being > mounted using the read-only ntfs driver. Install ntfs-3g and try > mounting it with that.
Thanks for the help. Sorry, I should have said. From the result of the konsole command <mount> on my desktop: <quote> /dev/sdd1 on /media/usb0 type vfat </quote> It "works" fine attached to my computer, which is running Squeeze. But it needs to work attached to its owner's computer, which is also running Squeeze. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201303131037.33353.lisi.re...@gmail.com