[Sussex] Mandrakew 9.1 shared partitions

[Ciaran Hamilton]

Hi,

> I have 3 fat32 partitions on /mnt/win_c, /mnt/win_d and /mnt/win_e
> 
> I want access to them for two users.
> OK, chmod 777 the mount points
> Whoops, Mandrake instantly changes them back to 744. (Security level is set
> to "high")

This isn't actually a thing with Mandrake's security, it's an fstab thing.

Open up /etc/fstab as root and find the lines with /mnt/win_? in them,
where ? are your drive letters. In the options field (which'll look
something like "iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850"), add ",umask=000" to
the end. Then umount and mount the partitions (yes, even though you have
Mandrake's automounter, you should do this). Then, everything should be
the way you want it.

Hope this helps. (From a fellow Mandrake 9.1 user)

 - Ciaran.