Hey all-

I recently built RH8.0 Linux to serve as my kids' school file server. I mounted the existing VFAT drive to a mountpoint and I can get to it no problem from Windows - BUT I can't write to it unless I'm logged in as root (bad idea in a school).

I haved chmod'd the mount point to 777 and chgrp'd etc but when I remount, the ownership is root and the mode is 0755.

Seems logical that I cannot write to it with that mode setting, but I can;t for the life of me figure out how to open it up for writing.

Oh yes, I have other samba shares with the same smb.conf parms - no difference other than they are ext3 not vfat - they work fine - I need to keep the partition vfat for compatibility with a dual boot system.

Ideas? Thanks

Dale

not a samba issue i wouldn't think, just mount the share with umask=000 in /etc/fstab, as opposed the the defaults umask=022 (which realtes to 755 rights)

Chris-

Thanks for the help - I've been over the fstab docs and can't find a way to mount and specify umask (?) Any tips? Thanks

Dale

I had realy problems with vfat mounts until I used the -o uid=xx option in fstab to change the effective uid of all the files in the mount to be owned by user wuth uid xx

You can use the group id as well which may be more useful (although I export this particular fs with NFS so the gid option did not work for me, uid works perfectly however)