Floppy drive on RedHat 9

From: Herv? LEBAIL (lebail_herve_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: 30 Jan 2004 01:20:44 -0800

Hi,

On RedHat 9, PC INTEL 2GHz, 512MO RAM
french guy ;o)

Objective : transferring with a floppy some files from a PC/OS Linux
to PC/OS Windows and vice-versa (2 different PC physically distants
from 1,5m).

so

+ as root I perform the following command lines :

disk format under windows 2000 Pro (PC#2)
on PC#1, modification of etc/fstab with the new line :
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto, user 0 0
'mount -a'
'mount /mnt/floppy' gives an icon 'floppy' on the desktop
'mount' gives "/dev/fd0 on /mnt/floppy vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)"
file transfer to /mnt/floppy (disk drive activity)
'umount /mnt/floppy' the icon 'floppy' disappear
back to windows on PC#2
I can read the file, OK

one thing to notice : every file transferred to /mnt/floppy don't keep
the code permission, they're indicated as rwx for root even if they're
originally r-x

+ as user the same commands :
it doesn't work : no permission to put files in /mnt/floppy
so I perform a su and try to modify ('chmod a+w /mnt/floppy') the file
permissions, the OS linux answer is 'not allowed to perform this
modification'.

from the PC#2 (windows) I copy file on a floppy and I can read it on
the PC#1 normally , expecting the rights set to rwxr-xr-x in
/mnt/floppy

Then I'm a little puzzled, so I'm here.

1/ How can I change permanently the permission for all user in
/mnt/floppy in order to keep the permission of the original files ?

2/ How can I assure that all users cn copy files on floppy whenever
they want ?

Help appreciated

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