-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:10:04AM +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote: > > I've almost got this solved. > > To make a long story of experimentation short, using the check disk > utility inside Windows XP was not sufficient for ensuring the partition > was in working order. I had to use my trusty Win98 boot disk, and run > scandisk from there, where it fixed something to do with the directory > structure. And then I went back to XP and ran checkdisk, where it then > found cross linked files to repair. Not that I know what a cross linked > file is, but my suspicion is that this all had something to do with the > assault that Linux performed on my disk when I tried to mount the drive > with the wrong settings. > > So where I'm at now is that I can mount the drive from the command line > like so: > [root at localhost ~]# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows > ... but only the root user can see it. > > I want to be able to make it so that any user (which is almost always > me, but sometimes I'm root, sometimes I'm just a user with the account > "dave") can access the drive, and that it comes up in Gnome/Nautilus on > boot. > > Here is what I currently have in /etc/fstab: > /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat > rw,uid=512,gid=1002 0 0 Try adding umask=0 []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDF1fUpdyWzQ5b5ckRAk57AJ9Zmvs1V7thzjteyTGA6b+zsVmGkwCfePlu h9LiiOG6vnFMg0D+mI7OBJo= =h6/z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----