On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 04:14, Paul Trevethan wrote:
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?!
This is not really an answer to your permission problem, but a comment on the purpose of that vfat partition. My lan has a SuSe 9.2 server, another linux box and 3 winxp machines. The server only has a Reiserfs
Mike McMullin wrote: partition, and a /home/public directory, on which all boxes, including the windows machines, can write and execute programs. You don't need a vfat partition for that, as far as I can tell. I guess samba takes care of that. fx