[plug] mounting Fat32 drives, permission problems...

[Russell Steicke]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 09:53:22PM +0800, Ambrose Scafidi wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> Trying to set up samba shares to a fat32 drive. Having some problems with 
> the permission settings. Other than for root, it seems the only way to 
> allow users to write to the drive is to mount it, set with their uid. been 
> playing with setting various gid's with not much luck...
> 
> Is there anyway to mount a file system that does not support permission 
> attributes such that any user can access it? 

Put umask=000 in the mount options.  This will give all permissions to
everyone for all files and directories.  You should then be able to
restrict permissions with samba if you need to.



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Russell Steicke

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