Need help from Redhat users!

[novkhan]

Originally posted here by Lansing_Banda


chmod 755 /mnt/windows/sandy
chmod 755 /mnt/windows/mike

chmod 755 /mnt/windows/novkhan

went to the folder and Rclick properties , tried to assign write permission for users but in vain.

And i use Linux download files into Fat partition so that When i switch to windows on the other partiton, i can use the files i have downloaded.

[novkhan]

Originally posted here by cgkanchi
chmod won't cut it here. You have to either specify the option "user" when mounting the partition (or in fstab) or (better option) add a valid umask to the fstab file. "man mount" should do the trick.

Cheers,
cgkanchi

Tried fstab.but still the same it didnt work

i open /etc/fstab with gedit

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=/tmp /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda9 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/thumbdrive vfat user,noauto,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/windows/c vfat users,gid=users,umask=000,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0

i placed hdb5 which is the /dev/hda5 .... but it doesnt work?

[root@localhost root]# cd /mnt
[root@localhost mnt]# chmod 777 windows
chmod: changing permissions of `windows' (requested: 0777, actual: 0755): Operation not permitted

i tried this few options as well but in vain!

/dev/hda5 /mnt/windows vfat users,gid=users,umask=000,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0

[cgkanchi]

/dev/hda5 /mnt/windows/c vfat users,gid=users,umask=000,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0

gid can't be users. It has to be a number. You can just remove it though in this case. A good line might be

/dev/hda5 /mnt/windows/c vfat users,umask=000 0 0

That's sorta what my line looks like anyway.

Cheers,
cgkanchi