vfat ownership help

[Tag_Scott]

I am dual booting wwin2k & debian 3.1. I have both share one hard drive and a third partition that i want to use for home directories for both OS's. My /home partition is formated fat32 so both OS will read them. In Debian Root is the owner and group for the partition and when i try to login as a regular user x wont load because it cant change the owner. in my fstab i have set to mount with uid=1000 (my regular user) and gid=100 (group 'user') still owner and group is root. Am I not understanding it right or is there another way to doo the same thing (can I use ntfs Instead)

[sdousley]

What i have here, is to have my windows "C:" to NTFS (ONLY windows is on there) then all the other windows partitions (D through H and then Z) are all FAT32. Then all my linuxpartitions are ext3, i believe it's wise to make it a linux based partition since the permissions will work properly.

Then to get files between the 2, i either write to the relevent FAT32 partition, or use explore2fs to read the ext3 partition and get the files using that