Re: Access to DOS VFAT partitions

[Scott Yellig <syellig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been unable to find any support for this suggestion in a man page
(probably because i haven't been looking to hard :)

BUT, i seem to recall that all the files in a fat partitions, when mounted
with no options, take on the permissions of the directory under which it
is mounted.

I would try removing all the gid and uid stuff in fstab, and doing

chown Robert.wade /doc/c
chmod 770 /dos/c

then mounting it. But as i said, i haven't been able to find support for
this in a man page, and i have no fat partitions to try it with at the
moment, so it might very well just be a delusion on my part.

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On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Robert A. Wade wrote:

> 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.
> >From fvwm, permissions reveals rwxr-xr-x despite the fstab commands.  In
> fact, nothing I do seems to alter these dos pseudo permissions.
> 
> Question:
> Can anyone help me get rw access to other family members (of group=wade)
> without "guest" users getting access?
> 
> TIA,
> Robert
>