Hi,

I finally switched from SuSE 9.1 to Debian Sarge on my laptop. Almost everything works fine, except of a few issues.

I am using thunderbird as a mail client, since - among other reasons - I can use it under windows and linux, and still use the same data. I stored all my mail data on a fat32-partition, which I can access from windows, of course, and which I used to be able to access from SuSe, too. Now I wanted to mount it in Debian, but somehow it does not work the way I want it to work.

As root, I first set up a directory /windows/d and then did a "chmod 777 /windows/d". Then I added the following lines to /etc/fstab:

... and did a reboot. I loged in as a normal user (kde) and tried to checked, whether the mounting worked. When I try to "cd" to /windows/d, unfortunatelly it tells me:

Then I tried to umount and mount it again, but then it says:

When I switch to root again, it is no problem to "cd" to it, to mount or unmount it, but afterwards as a normal user, nothing works anymore.

Can anyone please help me to set things up properly? Thanks very much,

ruh31

Try to add the options umask=000 and users to the fstab line, separated from defaults by commas:
'umask' translates DOS into unix permissions and 'users' allows all users to mount and unmount.

Thanks, that worked fine.

You said that umask converts DOS permissions in unix permissions. I thought DOS did not have any permissions like unix?

OK, it's FAT32, but that doesn't know permissions either (AKAIK). That's why you have to tell Linux how to treat the files.

Okay, thanks again!