Re: [opensuse] Re: Problem writing to drive shared by Vista and Suse 10.3

I was initially trying to use ntfs and even root was unable to write to it. =(

-Chuck


On 1/12/08, Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi@xxxxxx> wrote:
Chuck wrote:
I have a 300g drive with a vfat filesystem (created with mkfs.vfat)
that I write files (well I want to write files to) to from both
opensuse 10.3 and windows vista. (dual boot config, this filesystem is
never mounted to both at once)

However, when booted into opensuse only root can write to the
filesystem and chmod has no effect. (For example chmod 777
/mnt/data01/Documents (the mount point) appears to run successfully
because $? = 0, however the permissions are not changed)

I did not see anywhere in vista where I could set permissions on the
directory as you could in XP.


Vista (and XP is the same!!) cannot grant file access permissions to
your drive because FAT does not support it.

In order to get this for NT4/w2k/XP/Vista/2k03, you will need to use
ntfs instead.

kind regards
Eberhard

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