I have Windows XP installed on one hard drive and slackware installed on another. From root, I am able to read the contents of the Windows drive in linux. I defaulted to listing it as /fat-c.

But when I try to view it from a user account, I'm told only the owner can view the drive. I can not figure out how to view the Windows partition from a normal user. When I tried to change the properties of the /fat-c folder, I got a message saying the properties could not be changed.

Does anyone understand my problem and have a way to fix this so users can read the Windows drive? I know it is possible because I had no problem with this using Fedora4 with the exact same hardware. Thank you in advance for any help.

Try from the root account:

cd /fat-c
chown username .

I am not sure it works, it is just a guess.

try "mount /dev/hdxx /tmp/yyyy -o defaults"

x represents the appropriate drive
y represents the mount point

I believe you cannot run the 'chown' command on a windows partition, since POSIX permissions/ownership are not supported by the filesystem.

The way I do it is to mount is with the uid= & gid= option.
/etc/fstab:
or you could do
That would mount it so users in group 100 could use it - it's up to you.

thank you for the replies. i will try the above when i get home. i do recall messing around with fstab in fedora to get my windows drive readable. i'll let you know how it goes.