[lug] Linux FileServer Problems

[Michael Deck]

Alan, thanks. I decided to cut my losses though, and buy a new HDD. Got it
overnight yesterday AM and last night copied everything off the Win95 drive
onto the new ext2fs formatted drive. It works great, though for my current
purposes it meant doing a chmod -R 777 * on each drive. 

-Mike

At 11:02 AM 11/16/99 -0700, you wrote:
>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
>
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Michael Deck
Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.