Suse 8.1 Personal. By default, Suse puts icons for your windos drives on both the root and user desktops. When logged in as root, I have access to the windos drives with no problems. When logged in as user and clicking on one of the windos icons, the window that opens only shows a directory named temp. If you try to do anything with this directory it tells you that it does not exist. I have tried changing permissions, ownership, etc for these drives and have been unable to get the directories/files to show up as user. Could anyone give me some help on getting it so the user can access these drives. My last version 7.3, this was no problem at all. In 8.1 they have changed something drastically. tks in advance Paul T. -- Linux the OS of now and the future. Using SuSE Linux.
On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:43 am, P.T. (nevada) wrote:
have tried changing permissions, ownership, etc
~ maybe, try putting in /etc/fstab umask=000 so, the end of the fstab line looks something like :- noauto,user,umask=000 0 0 -- best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 11:43, P.T. (nevada) wrote:
Suse 8.1 Personal.
By default, Suse puts icons for your windos drives on both the root and user desktops. (...)
Hi P.T. Nevada, My fstab line for windoze drive reads: /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat user,noauto 0 0 I assume the 'user' entry is the most interesting one. Cheers .... Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@gmx.net Linux ... the better OS!
wolfi wrote:
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 11:43, P.T. (nevada) wrote:
Suse 8.1 Personal.
By default, Suse puts icons for your windos drives on both the root and user desktops. (...)
Hi P.T. Nevada,
My fstab line for windoze drive reads:
/dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat user,noauto 0 0
I assume the 'user' entry is the most interesting one.
Cheers .... Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@gmx.net
Linux ... the better OS!
This is a good one for you as to how SuSE did this. By accident and trying anything I could think of, I unmounted the drives as root. When I done this and clicked on the icon as user, the directories and files showed up and I could read and write to the drives. The default installation had the drives mounted as both root and user. Since root has control, I could see the contents of the drive as root, but not as user. I do consider this a bug in the installation program. Thanks for the ideas that was presented. Paul T.
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