How do I make a change to access a /windows/C folder? It keeps telling me that I don't have rights to access it. IT'S MY COMPUTER...WHO DOES THIS COMPUTER THINK IT IS TO TELL ME I CAN'T ACCESS MY OWN FILE!!!! Sorry, lost it there. Been a long day. I created a link on the desktop to my win2k partition on another drive. When I click it, it open Kong and tells me I don't have permissions. When I use "super user file manager" I have no problem. I'd rahter make it easy and access it the first way. Do I need to "chown" something? Tom
On Monday 20 May 2002 4:20 am, Tom Nielsen wrote:
How do I make a change to access a /windows/C folder? It keeps telling me that I don't have rights to access it. IT'S MY COMPUTER...WHO DOES THIS COMPUTER THINK IT IS TO TELL ME I CAN'T ACCESS MY OWN FILE!!!!
Sorry, lost it there. Been a long day.
I created a link on the desktop to my win2k partition on another drive. When I click it, it open Kong and tells me I don't have permissions. When I use "super user file manager" I have no problem. I'd rahter make it easy and access it the first way. Do I need to "chown" something?
Tom
On my home system, I handle it by adding my user uid to the fstab as follows: /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat auto,user,uid=501 0 0 /dev/hda5 /windows/D vfat auto,user,uid=501 0 0 It works for me so that when the drives are mounted I own and control them without needing to su. Eddie
At 20:20 19/05/02 -0700, Tom Nielsen wrote:
How do I make a change to access a /windows/C folder? It keeps telling me that I don't have rights to access it. IT'S MY COMPUTER...WHO DOES THIS COMPUTER THINK IT IS TO TELL ME I CAN'T ACCESS MY OWN FILE!!!!
Sorry, lost it there. Been a long day.
:-)... Best laugh I've had all day....
I created a link on the desktop to my win2k partition on another drive. When I click it, it open Kong and tells me I don't have permissions. When I use "super user file manager" I have no problem. I'd rahter make it easy and access it the first way. Do I need to "chown" something?
That's because you are accessing it as "root", whereas when you are accessing it as a "normal" user you do not have sufficient rights.... You could either add the user to the "root" group, chown the whole /windows/c to the user, or just format the other drive and forget about Windows alltogether ...:-) Jon
Tom Nielsen wrote:
How do I make a change to access a /windows/C folder? It keeps telling me that I don't have rights to access it.
From /usr/share/doc/sdb/en/html/kfr_18.html:
How can I mount a DOS partition in such a way that all users have writing and reading permissions? As mount option declare in /etc/fstab: umask. Example: /dev/sda1 /dosc umsdos umask=000
I created a link on the desktop to my win2k partition on another drive.
I would suggest to create a link to the win partition the same way you create a link to a new floppy device. (In KDE: Create new... Floppy device...) So by looking at the icon, you can see whether it's mounted. Then mount it manually only when you need it. For if the win2k partition is mounted permanently, it is also accessed by updatedb and all those cron jobs for the maintenance of the partition, which results in much more disc activity, especially if your win2k partition is big. SH
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Eddie Howson
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Jon Biddell
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Sjoerd Hiemstra
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Tom Nielsen