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Accessing a fat32 Partition

During the Slackware installation, it automatically detected my Windows partitions and asked if I wanted to mount them. I clicked yes and set them up. Now, I can access those partitions when logged in as root, but not as a normal user. When I try to go to /data (it's mountpoint) in konqueror it says "Access denied to /data". Here's what's in my /etc/fstab file:

Code:

/dev/hda8        swap            swap        defaults        0  0

/dev/hda6        /                reiserfs    defaults        1  1

/dev/hda3        /boot            ext2        defaults        1  2

/dev/hda7        /usr            reiserfs    defaults        1  2

/dev/hda10      /var            reiserfs    defaults        1  2

/dev/hda11      /home            reiserfs    defaults        1  2

/dev/hda9        /data            vfat        auto,users,rw,exec,uid=1000,gid=1001,umask=777        1  0

/dev/hda5        /wind            vfat        defaults        1  0

/dev/hda1        /winc            vfat        defaults        1  0

/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom      iso9660    noauto,owner,ro  0  0

/dev/fd0        /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner    0  0

devpts          /dev/pts        devpts      gid=5,mode=620  0  0

proc            /proc            proc        defaults        0  0

I'm trying to access the hda9 (/data) partition as a normal user. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

You are mounting data as user 1000 and group 1001. What is the group id of users listed in /etc/groups set the gig equal to that value in the fstab file.

Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, it didn't work. Now, when I try to access it as root or as a regular user, it says "You do not have enough permissions to read file:/data".

Sorry it's not gig but gid=100. After making the change you need to remount the filesystem.

Yeah, I understood and made it gid=100. I remounted the filesystem, but it's still giving me the same error.

What is the output of
cat /etc/passwd;
cat /etc/group;
What user are you logged in as?
ls -l the file/directory you are trying to access.

Code:

crawford@Kevin:~$ cat /etc/passwd

root:x:0:0::/root:/bin/bash

bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:

daemon:x:2:2:daemon:/sbin:

adm:x:3:4:adm:/var/log:

lp:x:4:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:

sync:x:5:0:sync:/sbin:/bin/sync

shutdown:x:6:0:shutdown:/sbin:/sbin/shutdown

halt:x:7:0:halt:/sbin:/sbin/halt

mail:x:8:12:mail:/:

news:x:9:13:news:/usr/lib/news:

uucp:x:10:14:uucp:/var/spool/uucppublic:

operator:x:11:0:operator:/root:/bin/bash

games:x:12:100:games:/usr/games:

ftp:x:14:50::/home/ftp:

smmsp:x:25:25:smmsp:/var/spool/clientmqueue:

mysql:x:27:27:MySQL:/var/lib/mysql:/bin/bash

rpc:x:32:32:RPC portmap user:/:/bin/false

sshd:x:33:33:sshd:/:

gdm:x:42:42:GDM:/var/state/gdm:/bin/bash

pop:x:90:90:POP:/:

nobody:x:99:99:nobody:/:

crawford:x:1000:100:Kevin Crawford,,,562.597.5130:/home/crawford:/bin/bash

crawford@Kevin:~$ cat /etc/group

root::0:root

bin::1:root,bin,daemon

daemon::2:root,bin,daemon

sys::3:root,bin,adm

adm::4:root,adm,daemon

tty::5:

disk::6:root,adm

lp::7:lp

mem::8:

kmem::9:

wheel::10:root

floppy::11:root

mail::12:mail

news::13:news

uucp::14:uucp

man::15:

games::20:

slocate::21:

utmp::22:

smmsp::25:smmsp

mysql::27:

rpc::32:

sshd::33:sshd

gdm::42:

shadow::43:

ftp::50:

pop::90:pop

nobody::98:nobody

nogroup::99:

users::100:

console::101:

crawford:*:1000:

crawford@Kevin:~$ ls -l /data

/usr/bin/ls: /data: Permission denied

I'm logged in as crawford.

Thanks for your help.

O s__t I forgot also add umask=0 in addition to gid=100

Just added umask=0. No luck.

What is the output of
ls -l / | grep data;
ls -l /data/*;

Code:

crawford@Kevin:~$ ls -l / | grep data

d---------    5 crawford users      16384 Dec 31  1969 data/

crawford@Kevin:~$ ls -l /data/*

/usr/bin/ls: /data/*: Permission denied

crawford@Kevin:~$

As root unmount the /data filesystem and post the output from the two ls below
ls -l / | grep data;
then
mount /dev/hda9 /data -o gid=100,umask=0;
ls -l / | grep data;

Code:

root@Kevin:/home/crawford# umount /dev/hda9

umount: /dev/hda9: not mounted

root@Kevin:/home/crawford# ls -l / | grep data

drwxr-xr-x    2 root    root          48 Jan 31 18:21 data

root@Kevin:/home/crawford# mount /dev/hda9 /data -o gid=100,umask=0

root@Kevin:/home/crawford# ls -l / | grep data

drwxrwxrwx    5 root    users      16384 Dec 31  1969 data

root@Kevin:/home/crawford#

Those permissions look good. Can you
echo "test" > /data/test;
as a normal user now?

Code:

crawford@Kevin:~$ echo "test" > /data/test

crawford@Kevin:~$

And there's a "test" file with the word "test" in it, so it works. I'm listening to music off of the partition as well.