Permission to write Windows partition

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:23:20AM -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 07:37:11PM -0700, Scott Talbot wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 16:05, 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. 
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > > Mingzhai Sun
> > 
> > 	In the /etc/fstab file ensure the keyword "users" is among the list in
> > the 4th column.  This allows non root to mount the partition, and gives
> > them ownership.
> > 
> > Scott
> The question is how to let users write to a mounted partition. users
> is not the answer. I suspect the permissions on either the mount or
> the permissions on the directory they are mounted on will give us the
> answer.
> -- 

groupadd winwriters
for user in mim eli
do
	usermod -G winwriters $user
done

And add the option gid=numerical_group_id,umask=002 to the line in
/etc/fstab for the windows partition.

For pen or floppies, the option user/owner is enough and mount will use the
user's uid.

Regards,
Luciano Rocha