Re: Can't read Win95 (vfat) partitions

[menion <menion mindless com>]

I too have had this problem, and what I had to do was add some
permissions to the 
mount statement.

'mount -t vfat /dev/hdXX /wherever -o user,rw'
                                      ^^^^

in your fstab:

...<snip>...
/dev/hdXX               /wherever                    vfat   
defaults,user,rw 0 0
...<snip>...


I don't think you ness. need defaults, but it [i belive] adds like
'noexec,nosuid'.  I really have no idea what they do, and, were I
motivated at this point I just see what man said, however, it runs =).

js

!!!! ->>>  WARNING: Just remember that there are NO FILE-LEVEL
permissions for the drive, so if 1 user has rw, then ALL have rw. 
(Filtered at the mount-point only),

Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> 
> Hi all;
>         I have a problem that's been plagueing me for a long time.
>         When I first set this box up, it was as a dual boot, between Win95, and
> Linux. All of that works great, and I've since added ethernet
> capability, and other PC's, and samba, and ip-masq'ing, and a firewall,
> etc. All is working great! (ok, got some heartburn out of the ethernet,
> the linux box refused to rec. 3com 3c509..Long story, changed to 3c905
> (pci), and problem went away).
>         Anyway, When I boot the system, I mount the Win95 disk as a vfat
> filesystem. I can cd into it, and look around, and read al the files
> without problem. The problem is: I can't write to the silly thing as a
> normal user. Only root has the ability to write in there.
>         Ok.. Before everybody says it:  YES, I tried chmod 777 to the
> directory, but it won't take.
>         I need to be able to write to this directory structure to support the
> PC side of this installation (the networked in PC's).
>         Has anyone else been through this can offer some help? I'm sure it's
> something simple that I'm missing, but it's an important simple!
> 
>                 Thanks in advance!!!
> 
> 
>                         Ric
> 
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