On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 21:49:38 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
The "user" only has permission to write to the disk if he mounted it. Fix your fstab option, unmount the drive, log in as "trevor" and mount the drive as that user. You will then be able to write to it.
Thanks, that is the trick. I wanted to have it automounted but instead I just created a new disc object on my desktop and that does all the auto-mounting for me. Just as good.
The access failure occurs because your file manager is trying to preserve permissions. It copies the file (which is fine), then tries to set the user/group and permissions on the new file which can't be done. vfat doesn't store file owner/group or permissions.
Right! Thanks for the explanation. That alleviates my worry about what was going wrong.