Re: Working both Worlds

[Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>]

When mounting Windows partitions, you will probably want to use certain
options.  After reviewing the man page on 'mount', I think that what you
are after is "user,sync,auto,uid=XXX,gid=YYY,umask=ZZZ".  Here are some
very edited excerpts explaining:

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       -o     Options  are specified with a -o flag followed by a
              comma separated string of options.  Some  of  these
              options  are  only  useful  when they appear in the
              /etc/fstab file.  The following  options  apply  to
              any file system that is being mounted:

              sync   All  I/O  to  the file system should be done
                     synchronously.

              user   Allow an ordinary user  to  mount  the  file
                     system.   This  option  implies  the options
                     noexec, nosuid, and nodev (unless overridden
                     by subsequent options, as in the option line
                     user,exec,dev,suid).

Mount options for fat
       (Note: fat is not a separate filesystem, but a common part
       of the msdos, umsdos and vfat filesystems.)

       uid=value and gid=value
              Set the owner and group of all files. (Default: the
              uid and gid of the current process.)

       umask=value
              Set the umask (the bitmask of the permissions  that
              are  not  present). The default is the umask of the
              current process.  The value is given in octal.
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Remember that umasks work the reverse of chmod.  "write-anyone" would
be a umask of "000".  I would use "uid=0,gid=X,umask=007", and create
a group for Windows files users called "win".  Then adding users to
the "win" group would be a simple means of controlling who had access.
I think others can better address the StarOffice issues.

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevinc grainsystems com



Horace wrote:
> 
> 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
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