[lug] Linux FileServer Problems

[Alan Robertson]

Michael Deck wrote:
> 
> Ok, y'all are batting .500! Switching my primary HDD from slave to master
> made it bootable. However, no combination of perms and parms seems to give
> write access to the mounted DOS partitions to anyone but the mounter. I've
> tried all manner of options in fstab and command line, changing perms of
> /dev/hdc1 and /mnt/cdrive before and after the mount, etc. etc. Is there
> anyone who actually
> 
> * mounts an MSDOS drive at boot time
> * allows non-mounters on that system to write to it

Yes.  I do that.
	/dev/hda1 /win98/dev/hda1 /win98 vfat
exec,nodev,nosuid,rw,uid=800,gid=40000,perm=777 
> 
> who can give me a rundown on how their system is set up? Security is not a
> concern -- this is a file server intended to be used by anyone who can get
> through the firewall.

Do this, but change 777 to 770 or 775 depending on your desires.  Change gid and
uid to
match the "proper" owner.


	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr at bell-labs.com