Mounting a shared windows VFAT disk

[damie]

Mounting a shared windows VFAT disk in fstab file.


I can mount the drive without a problem, but it is pnly in read only.

I needed it to be read write for all users can so one help me

line in the fstab file :

//thebe/thebepdf /mnt/thebe/pdf smbfs auto 0 0

[Roxoff]

It's probably a permissions thing at the windows end. Try specifying a username and password with the 'auto' option.

[damie]

I've checked username and password they seem to be ok.

You can write to the shared windows drive if you use 'Network Browsing' on the desktop. That works fine. But mounting using the fstab I still can not get it to work so it RW able

[jaboua]

I've checked username and password they seem to be ok.

You can write to the shared windows drive if you use 'Network Browsing' on the desktop. That works fine. But mounting using the fstab I still can not get it to work so it RW able

It may be a permission problem... Can you write to the files as root? Type this in a terminal to test:

su -
password&#58; <type root-password>
touch  /mnt/thebe/pdf

If the filesystem is read-only you will get an error.

Also try typing "mount" in a terminal to check for mount options. Check for "ro".

[Flatline]

It would also be helpful if you would post the contents of your /etc/fstab file.

[damie]

Sorry it might help so fstab file below

/dev/hdc3 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hdc2 swap swap pri=42 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /windows vfat defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=ut f8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
//thebe/thebepdf /mnt/thebe/pdf smbfs auto 0 0
//thebe/thebeie /mnt/thebe/export smbfs auto 0 0
//carme/drivec /mnt/carme/drive-c smbfs auto 0 0

[damie]

I have gone done the code

su -
password&#58; <type root-password>
touch  /mnt/thebe/pdf

I got no error just a prompt again



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[jaboua]

Thats a good sign. The thing is mounted read-writable.... Now it would help if you gave us your UID (User ID, can be found in /etc/passwd). Then I could change your fstab to let your user write the files.

[damie]

The passwd file below :

root:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
bin:1:1:bin:/bin:/bin/bash
daemon:2:2aemon:/sbin:/bin/bash
lp:4:7:Printing daemon:/var/spool/lpd:/bin/bash
mail:8:12:Mailer daemon:/var/spool/clientmqueue:/bin/false
news:9:13:News system:/etc/news:/bin/bash
uucp:10:14:Unix-to-Unix CoPy system:/etc/uucp:/bin/bash
games:12:100:Games account:/var/games:/bin/bash
man:13:62:Manual pages viewer:/var/cache/man:/bin/bash
at:25:25:Batch jobs daemon:/var/spool/atjobs:/bin/bash
wwwrun:30:8:WWW daemon apache:/var/lib/wwwrun:/bin/false
ftp:40:49:FTP account:/srv/ftp:/bin/bash
postfix:51:51:Postfix Daemon:/var/spool/postfix:/bin/false
sshd:71:65:SSH daemon:/var/lib/sshd:/bin/false
ntp:74:65534:NTP daemon:/var/lib/ntp:/bin/false
jboss:100:101:JBoss - Java[tm] Application Server:/usr/share/jboss:/bin/bash
jonas:101:102:Jonas - Java[tm] Open Application Server:/usr/share/jonas:/bin/bash
tomcat:102:103:Tomcat - Apache Servlet/JSP Engine:/usr/share/tomcat5:/bin/bash
nobody:65534:65533:nobody:/var/lib/nobody:/bin/bash
damon:1000:100amon Young:/home/damon:/bin/bash
david:1001:100avid Young:/home/david:/bin/bash
general:1002:100:General:/home/general:/bin/bash

[jaboua]

Which of them is your username?