access permission on mounted fat32 drive

Yuandan Zhang yzhang4 at turing.une.edu.au
Wed May 18 22:51:23 UTC 2005


Kai Zhang wrote:

>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!
>
>
>  
>
pay attentition to that line in fstab, I guess with option 'auto',  this 
file system was firstly mounted by root, try change auto => noauto. 
after booted, you can use 'usermount' tool to do mount or unmount.

Good luck




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