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 |
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