External HDD permisions problem

[thursty]

Hi,

I have an external hard drive, formatted as ext2, which I can use fine on my laptop. When I plug it into my desktop however I can cd to the disk, I can 'ls' see the list of directories and files, but I cannot descend into directories or read the files.

The permissions are set to:
drwxr-xr-x 3 500 mysql 4096 Feb 9 17:31 usb0

When I plug it back into my laptop I can access it fine as before.

Any suggestions?
(I dont have root on the desktop so cannot chown)

[b2bwild]

as there "x-r" execute permission for other users. you should be able to Open the directory and read the contents.

does it return you any error?

[thursty]

Yep, I can cd to the drive, but cannot descend any deeper or create any files on the drive. Eg

ls -l /media
drwxr-xr-x 3 500 mysql 4096 Feb 9 17:31 usb0

cd /media/usb0
ls -l
drwx------ 62 500 mysql 4096 Feb 11 09:04 laptop_backup

cd laptop_backup/
laptop_backup/: Permission denied.

touch file.txt
touch: cannot touch `file.txt': Permission denied

[devils casper]

drwx------ 62 500 mysql 4096 Feb 11 09:04 laptop_backup

Only root user has premission to access it and without root privileges Regular users can't do anything.

(I dont have root on the desktop so cannot chown)

In that case, its not possible to access disk.

[thursty]

Is there some way I can set up the disk to be viewable by both my laptop and my desktop? (Even if it means totally wiping it and starting over again - I don't mind doing that if it means I can actually use the disk for what I want!)

[b2bwild]

boot up with fedora live cd, login as root, copy the files in your home folder and change the permissions.