/windows permissions

[david]

On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 07:24, Sean Miller wrote:
> Anyone know a way to make /windows accessible to others than root?
> 
> I have tried tweaking /etc/fstab, I have tried manually mounting with 
> options, but whatever I do the filesystem remains owned by root with 
> everybody else only having read access... this means that in Nautilus 
> all files appear as little gnome feet rather than whatever they are, 
> preventing me from navigating through the windows directories to find 
> files -- only way is to do a sudo nautilus which should not, really, be 
> necessary.
> 
> This doesn't happen on other distros I have used (eg. SuSE, Red 
> Hat/Fedora) where I have used directories within the windows filesystem 
> for Linux, through symbolic links (ie. /storage => /windows/linux) or 
> similar...
> 
> Is this a feature of Ubuntu? Perhaps designed to prevent accidental 
> damage to a dual-boot Windows installation? If so, I can understand the 
> reasoning but would love to switch it off... any idea what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> Sean

When I had Windows on my machine (mmm it sure is sweet to say that in
the past tense) I had the following line in fstab

/dev/hda1   /win    vfat   umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850	0  
0

(All on one line)

And Windows was readable and writable by me as user and the icons were
correct. 

Hope that helps.

David