On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 01:22 +0000, Mick wrote: 
> Michael Sullivan wrote:
> 
> > I think someone's asked this before here, but I don't remember the
> > answer; How do I make it where regular users can read, execute, and
> > possibly write files on my mounted Windows XP partition?  The only thing
> > I use Windows for anymore is playing DirectX games, and I'm emerging
> > wine now.  I noticed that my personal account gets "Permission denied"
> > when trying to ls /mnt/windows and I don't want to have to use the root
> > account unnecessarily...
> 
> Yep, I asked this a couple of days ago, but the title could be misleading:
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/150416
> 
> The trick is to allow others to access and read the partition in your fstab. 
> Setting uid=222 allows the partition to be mounted with r-x rights for all
> concerned.
> -- 
> Regards,
> Mick
> 

I looked at man mount (as suggested in the link you sent me) and then
only mention of NTFS was the iocharset option.  How would I go about
setting up a umask in /etc/fstab to accomplish this?

-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Reply via email to