Linux woes!

[Sidomatic]

Hi!
I was wondering if you could help me regarding linux. I've got a couple of questions :

1. How do I set read/write permission to a hardrive?
I mounted my shared drive between my windows xp and linux as /home, but when I attempt to boot using a user it says I don't have read/write permission, how can I change that? BTW i use RH7.2.

2. How do go about using using desktop capture in KDE. I dont have gimp installed, so is there any other way?


Thanks-
Have a nice day!

-Mark


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Here is a copy of my fstab!
/dev/hda4/reiserfsdefaults 1 1
/dev/hda2/bootext3defaults 1 2
devpts/dev/ptsdevptsdefaults 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder/media/cdrecorderautoro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/cdrom/media/cdromautoro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/dvd/media/dvdautoro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0/media/floppyautonoauto,user,sync 0 0
/dev/sda4/media/zipautonoauto,user 0 0
/dev/hdb1/mnt/Sharedvfatauto,user 0 0
usbdevfs/proc/bus/usbusbdevfsdefaults,noauto 0 0
proc/procprocdefaults 0 0
/dev/hda1/windows/Cntfsro,noauto,user,umask=022 0 2
/dev/hda3swapswappri=42 0 0
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[Spot]

1. How do I set read/write permission to a hardrive?
I mounted my shared drive between my windows xp and linux as /home, but when I attempt to boot using a user it says I don't have read/write permission, how can I change that? BTW i use RH7.2.
--fstab--
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,noauto,user,umask=022 0 2
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/Shared vfat auto,user 0 0

I don't believe that linux will alow you to mount a fat32 drive as /home, as there's no way to set up file permissions on fat32 like linux does on its native filesystems. You can, however, create a link to the drive in YOUR home directory so you don't have to wander to /mnt all the time...
as su: ln -sv /mnt/Shared /home/<yer-user>/
This will create a symbolic link (sort of like a windows 'shortcut') to the shared drive in your home directory.

You're running NTFS on your Windows C...DO NOT try to enable write access to it! You *will* kill it. You'd have to recompile your kernel with ntfs write enabled, but DO NOT DO IT!
RedHat 7.2 doesn't have any NTFS support by default, see http://www.getlinuxonline.com/omp/di...at/ompntfs.htm for more info.
If you need to share files between OS's, setup another partition with fat32 or fat16 so that you can safely read & write to it, like you've done with your "shared" drive:

Here's what my windrives look like under Mandrake 8.1:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/winc ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/wind vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0

2. How do go about using using desktop capture in KDE. I dont have gimp installed, so is there any other way?

You should have gotten a util called ksnapshot installed with KDE. It might be labeled in the menu as "Screen Capture"...use that instead of installing Gimp.

[Sidomatic]

Okay....That still doesn't answer my question.

Well first of all linux DOES allow you to mount fat32 as home with read/write permissions because I did it in Red Hat 7.1

but that's besides the point. I need to know why my /mnt/Shared drive isn't letting my user account have read write permission, or what I should say is how can I get my 'user' be able to write to it?

I'm not trying to get write access to my C: drive, I'm having problems with my /mnt/Shared drive. I can read and write to it just fine as root, but I need to be able to read/write to it as User.

this is the line in my fstab I'm referring to:

/mnt/Shared vfat auto,user 0 0

What do I need to change it to, to make sure it mounts at startup, and that ALL users have read/write access to it

[JimH]

I'm not trying to get write access to my C: drive, I'm having problems with my /mnt/Shared drive. I can read and write to it just fine as root, but I need to be able to read/write to it as User.

this is the line in my fstab I'm referring to:

/mnt/Shared vfat auto,user 0 0

What do I need to change it to, to make sure it mounts at startup, and that ALL users have read/write access to it

There are a couple ways to do this. The easiest way to fix
this is too add umask=0 to the mount options, but this isn't the best way.
Mounting umask=0 gives ALL users, including users you might not want to have
read/write access to the drive. The best way is to create a new group and use
the gid mount option. Then any users you want to have access to the drive you
make members of the group. Below is an example using a new group named
"windows".

Login as the root user

Create a new group:
#groupadd windows

Find out what the new ID number for group is:
#cat /etc/group | grep windows

output will look similiar to this:
windows:X:501:

501 here is the new group ID

make your user a member of the new group
#usermod -G windows username

Replace username with name of user you are adding to the group

Check and see if you are now a member of the windows group
#groups username

output will look like this:
username : username windows

Edit /etc/fstab and save the changes:
dev/hdb1 /mnt/shared vfat auto,users,gid=501,umask=007 0 0

unmount and remount the drive
#umount /mnt/shared
#mount /mnt/shared

The umask setting, umask=007, I used above is very restrictive you may not want it that way. You can change it to suit your needs.

Jim H