Exhanging files with XP ?

Guillermo Garron ggarron at alketech.com
Sat May 20 14:45:37 UTC 2006


Thanks,

Guillermo.


Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> On 5/20/06, Guillermo Garron <ggarron at alketech.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Can you give us an example please?
>> thanks,
>>
>> Guillermo.
>> Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
>> > On 5/20/06, David Fletcher <fc at fletchersweb.net> wrote:
>> >> This seems to do what I want it to:-
>> >> /dev/sda5 /mnt/WindowsData vfat rw,defaults,umask=007,uid=dave 0 0
>> >> So far as I know, you can put the mount point anywhere you like,
>> >> including in
>> >> a home directory.
>> >
>> > umask will give the same default permissions for files and
>> > directories, which means file that are not supposed to have execute
>> > permissions will have them. Try fmask & dmask instead.
> 
> It's the same as umask, except fmask applies only to files and dmask
> only to directories.
> 
> /dev/sda5 /mnt/WindowsData vfat rw,defaults,dmask=007,fmask=117,uid=dave 
> 0 0
> 
> The above modification to David's fstab entry should do the trick.
> 




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