Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:07:37 -0600 From: "Michael G." <mikegoe@earthlink.net> To: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Users unable to write to mounted FAT32 partition Message-ID: <45E8D869.8070007@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20070302192743.T12679@tripel.monochrome.org> References: <45E8AFC6.4010207@earthlink.net> <20070302233455.GA92618@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <45E8C066.4080207@earthlink.net> <20070302192743.T12679@tripel.monochrome.org>
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Chris,
A mod of your suggestion did the trick. I was unable to finally
"chown Michael /mydos" and then change permissions using chmod. Seems
pretty simple but kinda strange that as root I could not change the
permissions.
Thanks to you and Jerry for all the help!
Michael G.
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
>
>> 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)?
>
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