From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 3 00:30:56 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 CC68816A400 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 00:30:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from mail.monochrome.org (b4.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B93E13C481 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 00:30:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from tripel (tripel [192.168.1.11]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l230UsNj016684; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 19:30:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 19:30:50 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill To: "Michael G." In-Reply-To: <45E8C066.4080207@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <20070302192743.T12679@tripel.monochrome.org> References: <45E8AFC6.4010207@earthlink.net> <20070302233455.GA92618@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <45E8C066.4080207@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Jerry McAllister , 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 00:30:56 -0000 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 <|> ]