rw is available as alpha ware...and they suggest mirroring the entire
partition someplace else first in case of disaster.  :-)

David

\_ 9x or NT?
\_ 
\_ Last I knew, there was a ro driver for NTFS, but not a rw
\_ 
\_ -----Original Message-----
\_ From: Eric [mailto:airickjay@home.com]
\_ Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 11:47 PM
\_ To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
\_ Subject: Re: File Permissions
\_ 
\_ 
\_ I am not using SAMBA, they are windows partitions defined in my fstab
\_ file...  They
\_ mount, I can read to them, I can create directories on the partitions, but I
\_ can't copy
\_ anything over, even as root...
\_ 
\_ Kevin Brown wrote:
\_ 
\_ > Can Samba work to mount partitions on the same computer (e.g. a dual boot
\_ > system)???  It sounds like the windows partitions are being mounted in
\_ Read-Only
\_ > mode for regular users.
\_ >
\_ > "J.L.Francois" wrote:
\_ > >
\_ > > Don't know which you are using.
\_ > > Try both.
\_ > >
\_ > > 1. man smbmount
\_ > >
\_ > > /usr/sbin/smbmount //WINBOX/SHARE /mnt/winbox \
\_ > > -U MYNAME -c MOUNTINGHOST -P Password -f 000 -d 000 \
\_ > > -u AnyUserToUseAsMountUserID -g GroupForThatUSER
\_ > >
\_ > > 2. man mount
\_ > >
\_ > > mode=value
\_ > >
\_ > > example: mode=0777
\_ > >
\_ > > Orig Msg> I have windows partitions, and I want to move some of my work
\_ to them so
\_ > > Orig Msg> I can access the files in Windows.  When I try as a user or as
\_ root, it
\_ > > Orig Msg> won't let me copy anything to the windows part of my hard
\_ drives...
\_ > > Orig Msg> I have tried chown on them and chmod, but it won't allow me to
\_ change
\_ > > Orig Msg> them...  It allows me to write to the partitions as root, but
\_ doesn't
\_ > > Orig Msg> allow me to copy files to it?  What am I doing wrong?
\_ > > Orig Msg>
\_ > > Orig Msg> Thanks,
\_ > > Orig Msg>
\_ > > Orig Msg> Eric
\_ > >
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