How to allow users rw access to windows folders?

[keith11]

I have three partitions in Windows and I am able to see those partitions in Mandriva Powerpack 2007 properly. One of the windows partitions is fat32 and I want to be able to access that partition as a user too, not just as root. I can write in the fat32 folder as root, but not as a user. I researched this issue over the internet and changed the /etc/fstab file as the following:

 

/dev/hda10 / ext3 noatime 1 1

/dev/hda7 /boot ext3 noatime 1 2

/dev/hda9 /home ext3 noatime 1 2

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0022,nls=utf8,ro 0 0

/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d ntfs umask=0022,nls=utf8,ro 0 0

/dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e vfat umask=0022,users,nls=utf8,rw 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0

 

I added "users" in the line for /mnt/win_e, which is my fat32 partition. I read over the internet if I did that, that folder will be modifiable by all users. Apparently, even after doing this, when I check the permissions of "win_e" through "ls -l /mnt/" this is what I get:

 

total 57

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Dec 31 07:42 cdrom/

dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 24576 Jan 16 10:11 win_c/

dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 24576 Jan 13 13:48 win_d/

drwxr-xr-x 36 root root 8192 Dec 31 1969 win_e/

 

So, basically, it doesn't make the intended change. I also tried adding "uid=500" in the line for /mnt/win_e and typed "mount -a", but the problem persists. How do I solve this? Can I also solve this problem through gui? Thanks.

 

 

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[keith11]

The problems seems to have been solved. I did some changes in the fstab file and they are as the following:

 

/dev/hda10 / ext3 noatime 1 1

/dev/hda7 /boot ext3 noatime 1 2

/dev/hda9 /home ext3 noatime 1 2

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0022,nls=utf8,ro 0 0

/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d ntfs umask=0022,nls=utf8,ro 0 0

/dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e vfat umask=0,users,gid=100,nls=utf8,rw 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0

 

Hope this helps someone who has a similar problem.