Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 19:30:50 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: "Michael G." <mikegoe@earthlink.net> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Users unable to write to mounted FAT32 partition Message-ID: <20070302192743.T12679@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <45E8C066.4080207@earthlink.net> References: <45E8AFC6.4010207@earthlink.net> <20070302233455.GA92618@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <45E8C066.4080207@earthlink.net>
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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 > 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 chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
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