a.garcia@imb.uq.edu.au wrote:

I am running win2000 and suse 9.1, it works fine. My win2000 is on a fat partition. suse mounts it automatically, and I can read this partition but I can not writte to it, how can I get this to automatically mount it (the way it is in the moment) and at the same time it allows any user to writte in to that partition?

Hi a.garcia, This is discussed in your documentation, which is installed by default (the SuSE Help Center is launched with the red and white striped life-preserver icon.) Here's the procedure I used successfully. There are probably others... 1. Close all X (KDE/Gnome/etc?) sessions 2. At log-in greeter: Ctl+Alt+F2 switches to tty2 console 3. log in as root 4. "init 1" will bring the system down to stand-alone single user mode 5. re-enter root password when prompted 6. "umount /dev/hda3" unmounts your vfat Win2K partition 7. "yast" opens up the ncurses interface to YaST Control Center Hints: <Tab> & <Shift+Tab> navigate between panels & categories Arrow keys navigate lists and move the curser within fields <Enter> selects categories and highlighted options <Esc> backs you out of a current operation 8. select 'System' category in left panel 9. select "Partitioner" module in right panel 10. read, then ignore warning and continue :-) 11. select /dev/hda3 for editing (highlight with up/down arrows, then tab to 'edit'; <Enter>) 12. open 'fstab options' 13. unselect "Mount read-only" 14. select your character set, *not* utf-8 [I use iso8859-1 in USA] 15. set arbitrary option values = "users,gid=users,umask=0002" 16. confirm and close 'fstab options' 17. confirm and close 'edit existing partition' 18. select 'apply' at partitioner module main menu 19. *read* and confirm changes in pop-up dialogue box 20. after the changes are written, exit ncurses YaST CC 21. at root prompt again: "mount /dev/hda3" 22. then "init 5" 23. log in normally as you (not root) 24. try a text editor to confirm you can read & write to the disk. 25. done DISCLAIMER: If you follow these instructions, you are doing so at your own risk. Never perform even trivial-appearing file system modifications casually. Read the on-screen menus, system prompts and documentation until you understand what you're doing *first* before effecting permanent and irreversible changes. Back up your critical data. hth & regards, - Carl