Mount with an appropriate umask, as in; mount -tvfat -oumask=0000 /dev/hdb2 /mnt/drivec 0000 will make everything on the mount world-writable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu