Re: Access to Windows partition

[Emilio J. Padrón <emilioj@udc.es>]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:39:06PM -0700, Piero wrote:
> I mounted my hard disk's windows partition (fat32) with "gid=winusers" 
> (the group to which I belong) and umask=113 as options. Correctly the 
> directory /windows ant its subdirectories had uid 0 (default), gid 
> winusers, and permissions "rw-rw-r--".
> Nevertheless, when I tried to do "ls -l /windows" or "cd /windows" under 
> my own logname, I got the message "permission denied". I could do such 
> operations (at least "ls -l") logging as root.
> 
> Is it normal?
> 

yes, I think it is. You need execution permission in order to have access 
to a directory. Try umask=003.

Cheers,
E.