File Permissions Slax6

[NiGhtMarEs0nWax]

I've installed slax6 onto an ext3 partition and setup a users account, i've also just managed to mount some virtualbox shared folders which are working and i can access them fine. The problem is I cannot seem to give limited user accounts access to them. root can access them no problem! but right clicking and changing the permissions do nothing, because once I click apply, reopen the menu, the changes have reverted.

I've tried chmod'ing them.. chmod o=rwx /mnt/folder I used 'o' because I can't seem to change the group permission for the folder.

The shared folder I am mounting is formatted in NTFS and the other in ext3, I can't change the permissions of either.

Can someone shed some light on this please?

Thanks!

[NiGhtMarEs0nWax]

bump please.

[devils casper]

You have to give ownership of ext3 mount point to Regular User.

chown -R user_id:group_id mount_point

For NTFS partition, set umask=0 in mount command or /etc/fstab file.

[NiGhtMarEs0nWax]

Thanks!

I tried remounting the ntfs share with the option you suggested but still the same issue.

when they are not mounted; i can take ownership of the mount points, but as soon as i remount, they default back to owner:root group:root; and that includes the ext3 share mount point.



these are the lines in my fstab

Refills_Shared /mnt/Refills vboxsf rw umask=0 0 0
Personal_Share /mnt/My_Share vboxsf rw 0 0


Thank you.

[NiGhtMarEs0nWax]

bump

[NiGhtMarEs0nWax]

well as you guys can probably tell im a bit of a noob atm, so i did a bit of reading on mounting here .. tuxfiles[dot]org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

turns out i need to mount the volume as a user as it defaults to root, to do that i needed to specify the owner uid and gid.

the above lines should look like so..

Refills_Shared /mnt/Refills vboxsf rw,uid=1000,gid=100 0 0
Personal_Share /mnt/My_Share vboxsf rw,uid=1000,gid=100 0 0

if you are googling and come across this thread (like i was doing franticly) then you are probably a noob like me.

open a shell and to find your group id and user id of the current shell session do..

id -g
id -u

Thanks!