Re: [Sheflug] A question on Ownership

[Ruth Gunstone <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <20020413160236.A23492 [at] janes.demon.co.uk>
          Matthew Collins <matthew [at] janes.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 02:49:03PM +0100, Ruth Gunstone wrote:
[snip]
> > (I thought 'Windows' had no concept of
> > ownership?!). Nor can I create any files in this folder :-( 
> 
> Windows does not, but you need to tell Linux what permissions to set when
> it mounts the drive. These are given as options to the mount command.

O.k.,

> 
> E.G. My /etc/fstab has an entry for my Dos drive.
> 
[snip some fascinating info:]

Many thanks for that. I /think/ I can just about make sense of it! I'll see
if I can put it to use one evening this week.

Thanks also to everyone else for their input. Highly appreciated (again!).

> 
> Setting the x permission is a bit silly, since I then mount the drive with
> noexec, but this makes all the files in my dos partition show up a lovely
> green colour in a directory listing.

Ah, yes! My Telnet client does that too. Nice innit?!


> Hope that helps.

I'm sure it will.

TTFN!,



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