hiya, out of curiosity, if you su to root, and then su to your username, do you still get the problem? i know that if you add yourself to a group, it isn't immediately inherited by all your current processes (including your x windows session and all the terminals that it spawns), so maybe that's the problem? if so, logging out and back in should do the trick. also, this is being a picky sysadmin, but instead of putting your mount point in /mnt, you should consider putting it elsewhere, like /usr/local/win (i do that and then symlink /music to /usr/local/win/music/path) sean On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 03:25:41AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > i have a problem accessing my windows drive as a normal user. > My mp3 collection is stored there and i want some sound in linux :) > This is the relevant entry from my fstab file. The drive is fat32 > and i want to make it accessible for my user: > /dev/hda5 /mnt/windata vfat defaults,gid=windows,umask=007 0 0 > > I want to grant every user access to the drive by making them member > of the group windows. > When i do groups benedict as benedict, it doesn't show me as member of > the group windows. When i issue the same command as root, it shows that > i'm member of the group windows. > Why is there this difference? > The group file shows me correctly that i'm member of the group. > > However, after i mount the drive (as root) and then go back to user > benedict,and try to access it as benedict i get "access denied" > A "ls -la" reveals this: > drwxrwx--- 12 root windows 8192 1970-01-01 01:00 windata > So users of the group windows should be able to access the windata > partition. > > What am i doing wrong? > If i set this in my fstab it works but then everything is owned by > benedict instead of root and that is something that i do not want > to allow. > /dev/hda5 /mnt/windata vfat > defaults,user,uid=benedict,gid=windows,umask=007 0 0 > > Any help is appreciated. > Benedict > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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