Access to DOS VFAT partitions

["Robert A. Wade" <robert.wade@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello All,

Context:
I have a dual boot (lilo) RH5.2 & Win98 system.  I am also trying to get the
family to migrate to, or at least use Linux. We have MS Office 97, & I just
installed SO50 (which can read/write Office 97 files). The VFAT dos
partition with all data files (Win C:/My Documents/Hilary or Erica etc) is
mounted in linux as /dev/hda1 on /dos/c.

In fstab I have the following:
/dev/hda1  /dos/c  vfat  exec,dev,suid,rw,conv=auto, uid=500, gid=500,
perm=770 0 0
(these were set by linuxconf)

where uid = Robert (me) gid = wade (all family members including Robert).
Trouble is, only  root & Robert can read/write these DOS files from linux.