On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 07:30:50PM -0500, Chris Hill wrote: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Michael G. wrote: > > >Owner of /mydos is root and Group is wheel. User has rwx while Group > >and Other only have r-x > > Well, there it is. I think users who want to write to this filesystem > need to have write permission on the mountpoint. How about creating a > group, perhaps "users", of which all users are members, then chown > root:users /mydos, then chmod 775 /mydos
That would be my thinking. Maybe make a mydos group and only put users in that you want to be able to r/w the mydos slice instead of everybody and then chown it to root:mydos would seem 'safer' if there are a bunch of users on the machine. ////jerry > > >Jerry McAllister wrote: > >>On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:14:14PM -0600, Michael G. wrote: > >> > >>>OK, I've scoured the archives for an answer with no results. I'm > >>>sharing a FAT32 partition between XP and 6.2 Release. The problem > >>>is I can mount the drive but only root can write to it (users can > >>>just read). I have the following in fstab: > >>> > >>>/dev/asd42 /mydos msdosfs rw 0 0 > >>> > >>>I've tried adding the -u or -g option with no luck. I understand > >>>that since FAT has no inherent permissions chmod has no effect > >>>either (tried it just to be sure) so it must be set from fstab. > >>>Any help? > >> > >>What are the owner and permissions on the mount point (/mydos)? > > -- > Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
