Permission to write Windows partition

[Jeff Vian]

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 18:30, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 18:05 -0500, Mingzhai Sun wrote:
> > Dear all, 
> > 
> >  I mounted my windows partition as /mnt/d, and /mnt/e. But it seems only the 
> > root user can write on these partitions. I want to give some 
> > other users the permission to write, but I can not do that. Do you guys know
> > how to do that. 
> 
> NTFS or VFAT?  NTFS needs a custom kernel or 3rd party module.
> 

:-(   He said root can access it but other users cannot.  Hardly seems a
module/driver issue. 

> >From recent thread "Pbs of disk access"...
> 
> On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 21:09 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: 
> > Am Mi, den 23.06.2004 schrieb Eric Tanguy um 20:30:
> > 
> > > I mount a vfat disk during the boot process with this line in /etc/fstab
> > > :
> > > /dev/sda1		/mnt/storex		vfat	users 0 0
> > > The problem is that i can't access it in rw mode as user. I think i's a
> > > normal security issue but if i remember is is possible possible to
> > > enable it in rw mode for user using umask= but i can't remember and
> > > refind it. Could we help me ?
> > > Thanxes
> > > Eric
> > 
> > man mount --> vfat filesystem part
> > 
> > "umask=002" to allow write permission everyone
> > 
> > Alexander
> 
> Phil
> 
>