On Wednesday 13 March 2013 14:55:01 João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: > Em 13-03-2013 07:37, Lisi Reisz escreveu: > > On Tuesday 12 March 2013 18:58:16 John L. Cunningham wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 05:31:57PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> The Verbatim belongs to User, and needs to function on his box. But it > >>> cannot be written to from his box, even as root, and returns "access > >>> denied" to most files and directories that I try to copy over. > >> > >> What is the filesystem on the drive? Sounds like NTFS, and it's being > >> mounted using the read-only ntfs driver. Install ntfs-3g and try > >> mounting it with that. > > > > Thanks for the help. > > > > Sorry, I should have said. From the result of the konsole command<mount> > > on my desktop: > > <quote> /dev/sdd1 on /media/usb0 type vfat</quote> > > > > It "works" fine attached to my computer, which is running Squeeze. But > > it needs to work attached to its owner's computer, which is also running > > Squeeze. > > > > Lisi > > Since vfat filesystems don't hold UNIX permissions, it has to be mounted > with the umask and/or uid, gid options. If it is plugged through USB and > you have a mount desktop service communicating with dbus, all should be > automatic. However, if User mounts it in a static configuration in > fstab, at least the umask must be set. If this is the case, try an fstab > line like > > /dev/sd?? /media/vfat vfat defaults,umask=0007,uid=User,gid=User > 0 0 > > which grants permission for User. A more flexible configuration would be > to create a special group, say fat, and add all users that need to > access the disk to this group, and then configure the fstab entry with > uid=root,gid=fat.
Thank you, João Luis. That makes complete sense, and is very helpful - not to say, workable. Much appreciated! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201303131518.56790.lisi.re...@gmail.com
