permissions on VFAT partitions

[Thomas Cameron]

In my experience, only root can write to vfat partitions.  Regular users 
cannot.

Thomas

Rodger Haynes wrote:

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