After installing F17 I lost access to a specific directory of my external disk

[Jonathan Allen]

> The reason I'm asking is that Fedora recently changed from starting
> user ID numbers with 500 to 1000, and there's a chance you might
> have been bit by it.

Where can I configure this?  We have a network with a variety of versions
of Fedora, and all our user IDs (and on backup CDs and DVDs) start from 200.
It's kind of annoying having to click 'other' before beibg able to log in.

Jonathan