Can't read Win95 (vfat) partitions

[Ric Tibbetts <tibbetts oz net>]

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