[lug] Linux FileServer Problems

[Alan Robertson]

Alan Robertson wrote:
> 
> 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
 * allows non-mounters on that system to write to it

OOPS, I meant to say:

   /dev/hda1 /win98 vfat exec,nodev,nosuid,rw,uid=800,gid=40000,perm=777 

I mangled this through pasting twice into the screen.  Perm is the
permissions every regular file shows up with.


	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr at bell-labs.com