I am having trouble with permissions on a vfat partition I created when installing SuSE v9.2. I thought I had a handle on permission type stuff but I must be missing something really simple here. I setup a small vfat partition when installing, with nothing on it (ie. linux only box) with a view to using it as a share for windows boxes on my home network, running wine and any legacy windows apps on; generally anything I did that still related to Windows stuff I would do on /win. I am happy for it to automount. I have 'man' fstab, mount, etc but I am still unsure what to change. Because this is a 'dangerous' area to experiment in, I thought I had best ask first?! My problem is I cannot create any directories or files on /win as user paul, and I can't work out whether the problem is in the /etc/fstab entry or the owner/group permissions only. Basically I want user "paul" to be able to operate /win at will, without resorting to superuser. here is the relevant line from /etc/fstab: /dev/hda9 /win vfat defaults 0 0 and here is the result from 'll /': drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-04-05 17:57 win I think the problem is in 'defaults' in etc/fstab but I am unsure what to change it to? Any guidance would be gratefully accepted. Thanks, Paul.