Re: mounted vfat and user permissions

From: david (david_at_home.net)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:38:40 GMT

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:12:55 +0000, mjt wrote:

> david wrote:
>
>> What is odd is when the drive is unmounted, the folder it mounts to shows
>> the user as root and group as users. When mounted these both are set to
>> root. Some permission issue somewhere ?
>
> here's mine, mounted, and i'm accessing it as a regular
> user in konq:
> drwxrwxr-x 10 root users 16384 1969-12-31 18:00 J
> .

Ok, sorted it. I changed the permissions on the /windows dir so I could
make the mount folder inside as a normal user.

So when it now mounts I am the owner and not root so I can read and write.
Thanks for the suggestions. I am learning all the time even if it is only
stupid little things.

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