From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 3 02:07:36 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 8108016A400 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 02:07:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikegoe@earthlink.net) Received: from elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 418B513C471 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 02:07:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikegoe@earthlink.net) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=ZuLDqY/jkxGp1H4gfvlZXaZHx1zwD1yL92FFmmsbeWO1xgZ7h5ps53g0FF9ejeP3; h=Received:Message-ID:Disposition-Notification-To:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from [72.198.222.177] (helo=[192.168.0.131]) by elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.34) id 1HNJep-0001lD-2j; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:07:35 -0500 Message-ID: <45E8D869.8070007@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:07:37 -0600 From: "Michael G." User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Hill References: <45E8AFC6.4010207@earthlink.net> <20070302233455.GA92618@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <45E8C066.4080207@earthlink.net> <20070302192743.T12679@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <20070302192743.T12679@tripel.monochrome.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: 6aea8b7d5a0621f6d780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bc689bb74f788e35f06accb965c497606f350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 72.198.222.177 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 02:07:36 -0000 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)? >