[ale] shifting permissions

[Sean Kilpatrick]

On Tuesday 04 April 2006 16:32, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
| Ah, yes. Now I remember; I have an icon on the Desktop labeled
| "Widget" which runs the command "openProfile filemanagement 
| file:///media/widget" This icon actually represents a "Desktop
| Config File."


Turns out this is incorrect. With the Thumb Drive removed from the
computer, the directory /media/widget shows two files. Oops!

So I tried again. Once again I inserted the Thumb Drive in the USB port
and tried to mount it as root:

| mount /dev/sdb1 /media/widget


That works and the USB device is mounted.

As root I can copy files to the device.

When NOT root, I can access it if root has mounted it, but the perms on
the files I copied over have been changed to "root  root."
Even odder, as root I can not chown the copied files. I am told:
Operation not permitted."

I supose I could reformat the thing as ext3 and that would solve
at least part of this problem, but then I wouldn't be able to use
the Thumb Drive to transfer large files to my brother's computer,
which is a Winbloze box. He's on dialup so attaching large files to
emails is out of the question.

There has _got_ to be a solution to this. I just don't know what it is.

Perhaps I need to rewrite the line in /etc/fstab.  It now reads this way:


Sean/dev/sdb1	/media/widget	vfat	noauto,owner,nodev,gid-users,
uid-nobody,quiet,umask=2 0 0 



Advice and counseling for this FC3 system would be appreciated.


Sean

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