On Thursday 01 July 2004 19:43, Adon Metcalfe wrote:
umm, im kinda feeling lazy this morning so i reccomend you have a browse of the suse online forums, and if you're still stuck check out the gentoo forums, thats where I gained most of my *nix knowledge :), as for the floppy, I'm pretty sure its the directory permissions which are set wrongly, the easiest way to fix this would be too make sure that there's no floppy in the drive and open konqueror in super user mode (System>File Manager>File Manager super user mode), type in your root password and then change to the /media directory. rightclick on the floppy folder and change the permissions so anyone can read/write it.
When I do that, the permissions come up rwxrwxrwx, or however it looks when anybody is allowed. I did that a while ago with chmod, as you suggested. See my other email directed to answer Patrick Shanahan. It seems that if you do that, you should be able to drag and drop to the floppy, but no such luck, not here, anyway. --doug
You can also run "chmod 777 /media/floppy" from the cmdline.
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 18:32:51 -0400, Doug McGarrett
wrote: Hello, list--
Somebody must have the same problem and has solved it. I CANNOT WRITE TO MY FLOPPY DISK AND I NEED TO.
I have already added "users" in fstab. It made no difference whatever. This is SuSE 9.1 with this funny mounting scheme.
Could some kind soul tell me how to make the floppy write-accessible for user, for root, for anybody in the whole wide world, I don't care, so I can copy information to a machine that i don't know how to make the network work for. (It's Win 98, se)
Words of one syllable, please. I am obviously incapable of any more.
If anyone can add how to set the Win machine so I can access it and r/w to it, please help. I have a Linksys router and can see the Win machine, but only its name and a subdirectory with my name on it. I never before had 2 machines running, and I have no idea how networks are set up. I suspect that SuSE has her end set up, and the problem is at the Win end.
(Just send to me, no need to put Win instruction on the list, unless you want to. )
Thanx. I know I ask a lot more than I contribute, but by and large this is a pretty darned good bunch of people here.
PS: Does anyone on eastern Long Island, NY, USA, know of Linux classes anywhere not too far away? I'm in Rocky Point.
--doug
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