ab2ms Posted April 27, 2003 Report Share Posted April 27, 2003 /mnt/windows is set for all permissions to root (the owner) and only read for all others. I am not able to even browse it as a regular user and if try to change the permissions as root, an error states I do not have enough access to the file to chance permissions. Root has no problem browsing through. I no longer have a functioning windows installation, but I do have stuff saved there and I occasionally run stuff from there with wine. It was fine until 9.1 and I can't figure out what the problem is. my fstab entry is: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,dev,suid,rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 does the problem lie there? I still don't know what most of that really means so maybe it needs editing. any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted April 27, 2003 Report Share Posted April 27, 2003 what about trying "umask=0" and "nosuid" instead of "suid" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted April 27, 2003 Report Share Posted April 27, 2003 for me since im the only linux user here at home i just use the uid=,gid= option when mounting the windows partitions. :) ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted April 27, 2003 Report Share Posted April 27, 2003 Here's mine.. /dev/hda5 /mnt/software vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted April 27, 2003 Report Share Posted April 27, 2003 I have a 40gb hdd that had windows once but now just has media and stuff on it, the mandrake installer wanted to mount it as /mnt/windows but i just mounted it as /media and it is fine that way. Can change the permissions as root to allow user writes etc.. i think mandrake just tries to protect a mnt/windows from being damaged even if there is no actual os on the disk. I wasn't able to change the permissions when it was /mnt/windows but that may have just been me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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