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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