Re: [LUG] Writing to FAT32 mounts as non-root user

[Jonathan Melhuish <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Monday 07 Apr 2003 12:08 am, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Sunday 06 Apr 2003 6:34 pm, Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
> > Under Mandrake 9.0, my FAT drives are owned root.root
> > Which means you have to be root every time you want to do anything on
> > your windows drives; not a friendly situation for a newbie!
> > So how do I fix it?
>
> Change the settings in /etc/fstab to include 'user'.
> /dev/hda1       /mnt/windows    vfat
> noauto,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

Ahh, it's so easy when you know how!  I think I might start a little "idiots 
guide" corner in the Wicki and stash all the solutions to all the silly 
little problems I encounter...

I've been mucking about with WINE this evening, managed to get Paint working 
(that's a wierd sight, Paint in KDE) but managed to completely crash the 
system trying to load Photoshop 7.0 :-(

Thanks,

Jon
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