[Westwales] Over Secure?

[John Beisley]

My fstab line for windows vfat partitions looks like this:

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/c vfat defaults,ro,umask=2 0 2

The "ro" part of the options you can leave out, as that would make it
read-only. The bit that does the business is the umask=2 part. You
might want to look in the manpages for "mount" for advice on the vfat
mount options to tune to your specific needs.

- John

On 01/02/06, Robert Savage <bobsavage at uklinux.net> wrote:
> 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
>
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