Hello from Adam with SuSE 10:
Two ways to solve this:
goto the windows directory. As root, chown +w C ; chown +w D. Try it again.
Or go to terminal (xterm or cntrol-alt-F1).
su. type root password. cd /windows.
mc. File menu. hit chown. hit the write ones.
Sometimes you also have to do it to the /dev files.
Reload a file browser and then see what happens.
Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Brooks
Subj: [SLE] No access to windows fat partition for users
Date: Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:57 pm
Size: 1K
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
I've got SuSE 10.0 Pro (not opensuse) and I'm running Gnome. I have a
dual boot system with a windows fat32 partition so that I can keep
interchangeable files there. I can't do anything with the partition,
however, as a user. I can do all the normal stuff as root. I've tried
changing ownership but the computer won't allow it. This is my attempt
via terminal as root (superuser):
linux:/home/jack # cd /windows
linux:/windows # dir
total 25
drwxr-xr-x 4 jack root 96 2005-10-24 18:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 544 2005-10-23 17:08 ..
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root users 8192 2005-10-23 15:27 C
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 16384 2005-10-24 18:46 D
linux:/windows # chown jack D
chown: changing ownership of `D': Operation not permitted
linux:/windows #
Because I know just enough to be a danger to my system, I don't recall
how to change permissions. I tried doing it via konqueror (again as
superuser) but without success. I didn't have this problem in 9.3, so
I'm not quite sure what to do. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Jack
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