[Westwales] Over Secure?

[Robert Savage]

Hi All,

Can someone point me in the right direction regarding permissions on a dual 
boot system?

I've put together a new system and installed Windows 2000 and Suse Linux 
10.00.  Fine, it dual boots nicely and Suse 10.0 seems like a nice OS, I was 
impressed with the way it installed.  The general idea is to use Linux for 
e-mail/web connection and put all downloaded files in a common 'Download' 
directory on one of the Windows partitions so that both operating systems 
have access to it.  However Suse Linux 10.0 has other ideas and won't allow 
me to write to the windows directory.  I have set the partition to rw in 
fstab,  set it as shared in Windows,  set it as shared in Linux...but I still 
can't write to it.  I now feel Suse 10.0 is far too  secure for its own 
good :-)

Now one of you very knowledgable guys may be able to give me the answer to 
this problem so that I can use the new system in the same way I use Windows 
XP and Mandrake 10.1 on this older machine.

Regards

Bob