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Where <user> is your username. Is the Windows partition FAT32 or NTFS? This might be of some help if it's NTFS, if it's FAT32 then making sure your user has read access to the mountpoint should be all that is required.
The umask options are the opposite of permission codes 777 equals 000 - if that makes any sense), so my windows partition is set to be accessible to all. However I had to set some user specific ownership options (uid and gid) in order to make amule stop complaining.
chown will not work as the fat file system doesn't support file permissions.
However the user does need permission to access the mount point itself so the chown is necessary. The -R flag is kinda redundant but a little for good measure never hurt anything. The FAT32 filesystem isn't the one in question though, care to read the original post?
Originally posted by linmix
(I imagine you refer you your original post as the threads original post doesn't even mention a filsystem type) [/B]
Ahh, you're right. I apologise, I was thinking of another thread around here on a similar topic. Similar questions being asked all the time, I got confused. Sorry
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