Problem solved!
Some combination of chmod a+rw and using the umask=0 option when
mounting solved it.
Now I can open my checkbook records on my wife's computer.
Unfortunately, now I know for a fact that I don't have enough to pay
the bills ;-)
--
Robert Koss, Ph.D. | Training, Mentorin
> "P" == P Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
P> Hey Bob. Puzzling one this. You should cc the group on all
P> mail as athere are way more skilled players than me.
Sorry. I thought I was. I have to remember to hit 'F' instead of 'R'
when replying.
P> soemting is very odd here.
> 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.
it's been eluding me a couple of times too...
vfat just doesn't have the pl
Hey Bob.
Puzzling one this. You should cc the group on all mail as athere are
way more skilled players than me.
soemting is very odd here. As root you can go to / and command rm -rf
/* and watch the whole OS disappear. So I don't understand why you
* can't chown the contents of the partition.
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 02:45:42PM +0100, P Kirk wrote:
> #! On Fri, Aug 10, 2001, Bob Koss wrote:
>
> >Mounting worked. By repeating the command I assume you meant
> >'chown -R sue /mnt/dosE'. If so, that failed as it traversed the
> >subdirectories of the partition.
> >
> ? Its meant to get all
> "P" == P Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
P> #! On Fri, Aug 10, 2001, Bob Koss wrote:
>> Mounting worked. By repeating the command I assume you meant
>> 'chown -R sue /mnt/dosE'. If so, that failed as it traversed
>> the subdirectories of the partition.
>>
P> ? Its m
#! On Fri, Aug 10, 2001, Bob Koss wrote:
>Mounting worked. By repeating the command I assume you meant
>'chown -R sue /mnt/dosE'. If so, that failed as it traversed the
>subdirectories of the partition.
>
? Its meant to get all the subdirectories.
As root do this:
Make sure the partition /is/ cor
#! 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/do
> "Patrick" == P Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Patrick> Hi, There are a few diagnostic steps you need. First, if
Patrick> you login to the Debian box under your wife's ID, can you
Patrick> access the files? If yes, its a SAMBA problem. If not,
Patrick> we need to look at
Hi,
There are a few diagnostic steps you need. First, if you login to the
Debian box under your wife's ID, can you access the files? If yes, its
a SAMBA problem. If not, we need to look at permissions again.
On the assumption that it is a SAMBA problem, here's a link that will
take you through
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