On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Don Hansford wrote: dh> rsanford@telusplanet.net wrote: dh> > dh> > Hi All, dh> > dh> > I would like to have read and write access my Windows partition as a user. dh> > At this time users only have read permissions. The Windows partition is dh> > shown as belonging to the root group and owned by root. I want the dh> > users Ralph and Linda to be able to read and write their data on the /windos. dh> > dh> Also, so you know, the chmod command is as follows chmod [option] <mode(s)> <filename(s)/dirname(s)> in your case, you would have wanted something along the lines chmod -R +rwx /windos or chmod -R 777 /windos <-- using octal values of course, this is assuming you have right permission to the drive in the first place (see Don's post below). You can get the complet syntax for the chmod command by typing 'chmod --help' another helpful command you will want to learn is the 'chown' command, again, 'chown --help' for complete syntax. dh> Try setting the appropriate line in /etc/fstab to read: dh> /dev/hda1 /windos vfat rw,auto 0 0 dh> Works on the systems at work :-) dh> Of course, change the hda1 above, if necessary dh> HTH dh> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v7.0+ - Kernel 2.2.17 Corruption is not the #1 priority of the Police Commissioner. His job is to enforce the law and fight crime. -- P.B.A. President E. J. Kiernan -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq