access permission on mounted fat32 drive

[Kai Zhang]

Thanks all, but the problem still persists.
I am using an server with SCSI HDs
I appended this in fstab 
/dev/sdb5   /home/kaizhang/xp   vfat    auto,users,rw,gid=100,umask=777   0 0

then mount -a as root

now I can't even get into the directory!

Help!



Fred Morcos wrote:

>     On 5/17/05, Kai Zhang <cmskzhan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>     I have mounted a fat32 drive in my home directory. But I can only
>>     read
>>     it. i have write access when login as a root or su. tried chmod +777
>>     <directory name>, no joy.
>>     Any suggestion?
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>     i assume u edited fstab, in the <mount options> column, use
>     "umask=000" (without the quotes)..
>
>
>
   you may change the line in fstab to let user or users to have a rwx
   , instead of root only

   eg

   /dev/hda5    /mnt/dos    vfat    users,noauto   0 0

   then as  a root, do 'mount -a'

this is what my /etc/fstab entry looks like...  I created a separate
group that I gave access to my windows side of the box... (so my kid
can't mess anything up over there...)

/dev/sda1        /windows/XP        auto
users,rw,noexec,uid=500,gid=500,umask=007    0 0

Hope all those ideas help.