Hello! :]

I have a problem with users in slack. When i add somebody for eg.

adduser szymon

Everything is ok, until i try to read mounted windows drives as a user (or do almous anything! ) i get error (in mC) :

"cannot change directory"

Even more..when i try to copy some file into my linux partition situation is the same :-/ i can copy as a root, but i can`t read it on linux partition as a user - only root . User can`t do anything. I had mandrake and red hat distro`s and everything was fine there. But i like slackware very much and i don`t want to be as root, all the time. Can someone help me?

ps. in fstab i did wrote "user' in mounted win partitions - didn`t help .

Check the ownership and the rights of the mounted directories you are trying to "read".

If this is not done yet, try adding the user who has the problems to groups "wheel" and "disk". That should do the trick...

owner is root. Rights are "show entries" for all , write enteries , and enter are for users only.

I added user as you said to wheel and disk but it didn`t worked out . Later user were in "root" group. I even selected all groups ...but i still can`t see files . Right now i couldn`t write a file into a directory that was made by root, i can look into it but can`t do anything...grrr that`s annoying

Can you post the "raw" ls -l output for the mount points for the Windows drives you're mounting?

For example, here is info on our RedHat box for a Windows network drive mounted via smbfs:

[tomw@ebdsl tomw]$ ls -ld /mnt/driveX
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Nov 20 2002 /mnt/driveX
[tomw@ebdsl tomw]$ mount
/dev/hda6 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hdb3 on /mnt/cache type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hdc1 on /mnt/build type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0622)
//NTEBSVR/PUBLIC on /mnt/driveX type smbfs (0)
[tomw@ebdsl tomw]$

What are the permissions on the mount point you're mounting the Windows share to? Also, how are you mounting the Windows shares into your Linux filesystem?

I run Slackware 8 at home.

Peace...

It's primarily a matter of how the umask
in fstab is set :)

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...der=descending

That search will return a few more than you'll
want to read, pick the ones most relevant to
your problem ;)

Cheers,
Tink

try this in your fstab:

/dev/hda# /mnt/hda# vfat noauto,user,exec,rw,nosuid,umask=007 1 0