Re: Please help asap

2005-09-15 Thread Laura Melton
all been geeks for long enough that we don't understand what it is like to be completely ignorant and afraid of computers. These people have no idea what Debian is, so they don't understand where their question is going. Have a little pity. Laura Melton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Cannot remove 'execute' permission from vfat & ntfs partitions

2005-05-06 Thread Laura Melton
On 06 May 2005, Jon Dowland wrote: >Laura Melton wrote: >>Thanks for asking this question; I hadn't realized it was possible to >>remove the pesky executable permissions, so I hadn't even tried to find >>out how to do it! > >It's not generally useful

Re: Cannot remove 'execute' permission from vfat & ntfs partitions

2005-05-05 Thread Laura Melton
On 05 May 2005, Kevin1 wrote: >However, dmask & fmask do not appear to be options for ntfs. I have >tried: > >/dev/hda6 /mnt/winE ntfsuid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=227,fmask=337 >0 0 > >... which I hoped would allow owner and group to navigate directories >and read, but not write