vfat partition - write permission for users group
 

hello I am trying to automount my shared partition, I cannot get write permission set for the users group. I can however write to the disk from su.

I read somewhere to assign gid=100 would fix it at mount time, but it still doesn't seem to work. Can someone check my /etc/fstab entry please, I am such a newb:

/dev/hda2 /mnt/D vfat gid=100,user,auto 0

thanks for your help

Rich.

search this forum i have already given the answer....

try this also

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ite+permission

great thanks, so basically I just have to set UMASK=000 instead of using gid. I will try it when I boot to linux again, I am now having trouble with my modem connection, linux is really hard to get running.

thanks again.

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and for the modem. use kppp and just change the modem device and query it. if it fails then try with another modem device setting of Kppp. short cut.
if your modem is connected to first serial port them the device is /dev/ttyS0
and so on..

thanks, the modem is configured okay, the problem is that it won't stay connected, it drops the line between 2 - 30 minutes usually closer to 2. I have a post up in the hardware forum. I wasn't sure to look at wvdial.conf, something to do with pppd or my hsf conexant driver.

I'd just used wvdialconf to setup my wvdial.conf, have not done anything past the defaults for pppd and used hsfconfig tool to auto configure the modem. I'm pretty hopeless and rely on these auto tools quite heavily :)

thanks for help.

well I finally have got round to trying to update my fstab and remounting my drive. It is still not working even with the UMASK option my user account still doesn't write to disk, can someone please just tell me what is wrong with the following line:

/dev/hda2 /mnt/D vfat auto,UMASK=000 0 0

thanks very much.

not sure if umask is case sensitive, may well be,make it lower. when it is mounted check that the permissions are on an "ls"

great thanks a lot! it worked!