On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 00:13, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> 
> 98 on FAT32 should mount just fine, and should be writable by all users
> using umask=0000.
> 
Thanks. That did the trick.

> XP, however, is something of a bitch.  The OS marks basically all of the
> directories (and subdirectories) it creates during its install (/Winnt,
> /program files, and /documents and settings) read-only, but seems to
> ignore the flag itself.  The net effect is that XP and Windows apps can
> write to those directores, but other OS's, that enforce the DOS
> read-only flag can't write to anywhere "normal".
> 
Gee, wonder who they had in mind when they did that? ;) Does this apply
also when using Samba to mount an XP partition?

-Gerry

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