Check the options in /etc/fstab. I found that adding the option 
",umask=0,users" to the applicable lines made a big difference in RH 9, 
Mandrake 9.2, Fedora core 1, and Mepis. I don't know about RH 7.3

-mj-

Bob Holtzman wrote:

> I probably should ask this in a Windows group but I don't think
> they would have a clue.
> 
> I can copy files from my Windows partition to my Linux partition
> but not from Linux to windows. I'm dual booting W98SE and RH7.3.
> 
> As root with the Windows partition mounted the command and return is:
> 
> [root@localhost Calc]# cp filename.sxc /mnt/win/Transfer
> 
> 
> And it hangs there looking like it's waiting for the rest of the 
> command.
> 
> The Windows directory is:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root   4096 Apr 15 23:05 Transfer
> 
> And the Linux file is:
> 
> -rw-rw-r--  1 username   username   6373 Jun 27 16:26 filename.sxc
> 
> This worked well under W95 but I recently upgraded to W98SE.
> Any pointers wecome. Thanks.
> 


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