Not allowed to create link on mounted FAT32 partition

[Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun Microsystems]

Greetings,

I have a FAT32 partition mounted as /mnt/windows/D as per the below 
fstab statement:

/dev/hdd1               /mnt/windows/D          vfat 
users,owner,rw,umask=000 0 0

It's mounted at startup.

This mount allows ordinary users to read and write to the partition. But 
I've run into a problem when trying to make a link to a folder  (right 
click in Nautilus and select "make link") - then I get an error message 
"Operation not permitted while creating a link..."

This problem also manifests itself when I run Azureus (Bittorrent 
client) - it tries to allocate space on the volume before starting 
download of a file and fails with the same "operation not permitted" 
message.

Why am I allowed to write to the partition but not create a link?

thanks,


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