change permissions
 

hello folks...
as you all know i am using mandriva ... installed wine.. installed utorrent thru wine..
the thing i want to know now is how do i change permissions of my dirves ...
enable view and modify for other groups and myself..... ???????

enable read write and execute?
sudo chmod 0777 /some/mount/point

thanks alot.. but didnt do good...
:(
it still displays view content only.... there is no wirte option

what drives are you talking about?

i mean the windows partitions ... ntf/fat partitions...
the partition in which windows was installed :)

add umask=0 to the mount options in /etc/fstab

i dont think one can write to ntfs drives from linux. ive always mounted them readonly. Here some stuff to read about the topic
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-drive-537891/

hope this helps,
cheers, j

I take it you are trying to mount and write to the drives with files downloaded through utorrent, am I correct?

I would first recommend using one of the native linux clients. ktorrent is a fine program, the official bit torrent client is available for linux, azureus is available, plus about 10-20 more clients. (My fav. is ktorrent)

Secondly, most modern distros can read and write ntfs just fine--but it should come with warning. sometimes they can mess it up (though mine never have)

My best suggestion is to make a FAT32 FS on a partition you can share between windows and linux, you'll be much happier this way, i promise.

However, if you really want to work with NTFS, post your mount options for the NTFS partition.

--Travis

maybe.. you could explain how i install ktorrent cos... i tried downlaoding rpm,source files and compiling but none of them worked...

Sorry I missed your reply.

If you are using Ubuntu, do:

# apt-get install ktorrent

If you are using a yum based distro, do:

# yum install ktorrent


I think mandrake is:

urpmi -i ktorrent

Hope that helps!

thanksssssssss

no problem!