Shared partition and user write permission
 

I've been having trouble getting this to work correctly. Let me first explain my setup:

I created a dual boot machine. FC4 and WinXP. This HD has three partitions. One for Linux, one for WinXP, and a shared partition for files to be shared between the two operating systems.

The shared partition was formatted fat32 using windows.

I didn't have any problems mounting or reading the partition.

I want local users to have the ability to write to this partition <-- This is what I'm having trouble with. After doing some research I thought I had it fixed by changing how I mounted the partition in /etc/fstab with the following:

/dev/hda2 /files vfat users,umask=022 0 0

I know this is not the most secure solution, however I did have it working... at least until I decided to reboot the machine.

Now my local users cannot write to the partition. Am I way off with what I came up with (remember it did work once). Is there another, better, more secure way??

Thanks very much in advance for the help!

-D

That would be because of the umask you're using.

It should be 000 if everyone is meant to write to it.


Cheers,
Tink

Thanks that worked!

Just out of curiosity, is there any other way to accomplish that?

Sure. You could umask=202,uid=nobody,gid=windohs.
And a
addgroup windohs
and
add all people you want to be able to write to
it to that group.

If you only need one user to be able to write:
umask=022,uid=<youruser>


Cheers,
Tink