permissions on VFAT partitions

Rodger Haynes rodger at thompsonprint.com
Fri Dec 21 07:11:15 GMT 2001


I'm running RH7.1 and Samba 2.2.2 . I would like to offer a VFAT
partition on the server  hard drive for universal read-write access. I
mount the partition in fstab with

/dev.hda5    /sys    vfat    defaults,rw,uid=1001,gid=1001    0 0

It mounts fine and shows up on the Windows 98 machine and can be opened.
I can't write to it however.
User and group 1001 are smbuser account, and they show up in /ls -l as
the owner and group.
security=share
I'm logging in from host "rodger" - this account exists in hosts file
chmod 777 /sys -R and chmod 777 /sys/* -R doesn't seem to get the job
done either.
I can set up directories under / and make them universally accessable, I
just can't seem to do it with VFAT
I'm new to the Linux world and would really appreciate any help you can
give me. Thanks in advance. -Rodger






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