From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 3 00:25:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 724C016A406 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 00:25:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikegoe@earthlink.net) Received: from elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3272413C46B for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 00:25:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikegoe@earthlink.net) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=GcVwXivXbAs20rVRfgXeT9zIqqLl9oC99b6tINfrDSxHCsHFZNGmVO8QrGtSO/nz; h=Received:Message-ID:Disposition-Notification-To:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from [72.198.222.177] (helo=[192.168.0.131]) by elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.34) id 1HNI3g-00044l-5P; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:25:08 -0500 Message-ID: <45E8C066.4080207@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:25:10 -0600 From: "Michael G." User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerry McAllister References: <45E8AFC6.4010207@earthlink.net> <20070302233455.GA92618@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070302233455.GA92618@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> X-ELNK-Trace: 6aea8b7d5a0621f6d780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bcb6232612adf097c7a7c968ec6a92c10b350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 72.198.222.177 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Users unable to write to mounted FAT32 partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:25:11 -0000 Jerry, Owner of /mydos is root and Group is wheel. User has rwx while Group and Other only have r-x M.G. 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)? > > ////jerry > > >> Thanks! >> >> M.G. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > >