[lug] mount question

[j davis]

cool, it works ...i mounted vfat partion with uid and gid of 501...now my 
user
kelly (uid 501) can write to it.....this is all being done so i can smbmount 
the drive to my ftpserver...when i use smbmount specifing uid and gid 501 
from my ftp
server i cant write to the vfat when im a user with uid gid 501.when i issue 
the mount command i get /192.168.0.2/share /files smbmount(0)...any guesses?

thanks
jd

recap..
                          smbmount->
win/linux box      ---------------------> linux ftp server
booted to linux                            smbmount uid gid 501
mounted vfat uid gid 501
writable buy uid gid 501                   unwritable uid gid 501



>From: Hugh Brown <hugh at vecna.com>
>Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>Subject: Re: [lug] mount question
>Date: 11 Apr 2002 08:29:15 -0400
>
>fat filesystems don't understand permissions.  so one user and one group
>can be associated to the filesystem and that is done at mount time with
>the uid and gid options (see man mount)
>
>You will probably need to set up a group for all users wanting to write
>to the windows partition.  If you are the only one interested in doing
>it and you don't want to become root every time you want to write to the
>partition then just set it to your uid and don't worry about the gid.
>
>Hugh
>
>
>On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 02:50, j davis wrote:
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > i have a dual boot box...when i boot to linux my windoz partion is 
>mounted
> > via fstab
> > however i cant seem to let users other than root write to the windoz
> > partion.
> > my entry in fstab looks pretty generic...im usung the dealuts in the 5th
> > field
> > i dont know if this is my problem or not...checked the man page and 
>could
> > not figure it out.
> >
> > Thanks
> > jd
> >
>
>
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