Working both Worlds

[Horace <hgf3 skyinet net>]

Hi Guys,

I'm still new to Linux so I still use Windows for most of my computing.
have installed StarOffice 5.2 in Linux to convert and access my Word and
Excel files which are stored in several folders in 3 vfat drives (H:, I:,
J:).

In Linux, I added the entries in the fstab file to mount these 3 drives
automatically startup.

/dev/hda9	/mnt/drv_h	users,auto	0 0
/dev/hda10	/mnt/drv_i	users,auto	0 0
/dev/hda11	/mnt/drv_j	users,auto	0 0

No problem there. But when I login as a user and try to write to these
three disks with any application, I get a "no access" or "permission
denied" message. But after doing a umount and a re-mount of the disks, I
can easily write to the disks.

Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

About StarOffice, I've read from an earlier thread that one can't get 100%
compatibility when converting MS Office files to StarOffice. It's for this
reason that I am going to install StarOffice for Windows and try to access
docs created by the Windows version from Linux. Does anybody know if there
are compatbility problems between docs created between the Linux and
Windows version of StarOffice?

Thanks.

Horace G. Friend III
okee mail com
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