On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 21:22, Ruth Gunstone wrote: > I've managed to set-up a shared folder on my laptop (rasillon), which I can > connect to from my workstation (gallifrey). No problem there. On rasillon, > the shared folder is on a FAT32 parttion, which has a mount point in my > 'home' folder (/home/ruth/Data). BUT when I try to save or copy something > into it from gallifrey, I get "access denied" :-( > > All the files and folders in /home/ruth/Data have permissions set to > rwxrwxrwx , but I notice that owner is declared as root. When I change to su > and do 'chown ruth -R', I get a succession of 'operation not permitted' > lines. > > What have I done wrong? A sample from /etc/fstab /dev/hda7 /mnt/f vfat uid=936 0 0 First column: the partition on the drive Second column; the mount point Third; the type Fourth; options The options need to change, if it is currently default then replace it with uid=XXX. If there are options already there (like owner,kudzu,noauto...), then a comma at the end of the existing options followed by uid=XXX Well, it's not quite uid=XXX, XXX is the numerical user-id, which can be found in the third column produced by this command. more /etc/passwd | grep username e.g. username:x:936:936::/home/username:/bin/bash You'll need to unmount and remount the FAT-32 partition (or at the risk of getting jumped on from a great height, reboot). It's all hidden in `man mount`, which may be useful if you want to play with the group as well. -- Regards, Adam Allen. adam@dynamicinteraction.co.uk pgp http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=adam%40dynamicinteraction.co.uk
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