[SLE] Accessing Windows for all Users
Hi All, I would like to have read and write access my Windows partition as a user. At this time users only have read permissions. The Windows partition is shown as belonging to the root group and owned by root. I want the users Ralph and Linda to be able to read and write their data on the /windos. When I try and change permissions with KFM the changes do not stick. When I try and use chmod and chgrp from root there are error messages, trying to use chmod users+rwx /windos gets a report as invalid mode. Since I really don't know what I am doing in Linux, I am sure there is a combination of operator and syntax errors at work here. The changes I would like are to have the users be able to read and write to /windos immediately upon logging in, without having to manually configure or load anything. Full access to /windos would be nice, full access to about 10 data directories under /windos would be OK, having to manually change permissions on hundreds of files would not work. The system is Suse 7.0 and the /windos is vfat. This is a fairly recent and fresh install of Suse 7 as I wanted to try the Reiser FS. I thought Suse had read and write access to the windows partition in 6.2 and 6.3 but maybe I was content with read only access at that time or maybe I was luckier on the install. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: rsanford@telusplanet.net Date: 31-Oct-00 Time: 23:47:54 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- -- 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
rsanford@telusplanet.net wrote:
Hi All,
I would like to have read and write access my Windows partition as a user. At this time users only have read permissions. The Windows partition is shown as belonging to the root group and owned by root. I want the users Ralph and Linda to be able to read and write their data on the /windos.
Try setting the appropriate line in /etc/fstab to read: /dev/hda1 /windos vfat rw,auto 0 0 Works on the systems at work :-) Of course, change the hda1 above, if necessary HTH -- This Email is 100% Virus Free! How do I know? Because no Microsoft products were used to generate it! Regards Don Hansford ECKYTECH COMPUTING/ SQIT Warwick <SuSE Linux 6.4> -- 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
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
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