Need to change permissions for windows folders

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#1

Hey guys,

      How to change permissions for windows folders in suse.By default only read permission will be there on windows folders.How can I enable write permissions??I tried chmod -R 777 /windows .It changed permissions for only /windows/C .In its subdirectories like /windows/C/users etc I am not able to create/delete files or folders...Do I have to edit anything in /etc/fstab ??Plz help me..

Tks in Advance…

#2

rajeshksv37 wrote:
> How to change permissions for windows folders in suse.By
> default only read permission will be there on windows folders.How can I
> enable write permissions??I tried chmod -R 777 /windows .It changed
> permissions for only /windows/C .In its subdirectories like
> /windows/C/users etc I am not able to create/delete files or
> folders…Do I have to edit anything in /etc/fstab ??Plz help me…

You can’t chmod/chown on non-POSIX file system. Instead edit /etc/fstab,
specifically the uid,gid,umask,fmask,dmask options. See “man mount”,
the “options for NTFS” (or vfat) part.

Kind regards,
Andreas Stieger

#3

For VFAT: openSUSE: HowTo set disk access permissions for Fat32 (VFAT) on a desktop PC
For NTFS: HowTo Mount NTFS Filesystem Partition Read Write Access in openSUSE 10, 11

#4

Thanks for the links swerdna. I used the Partioner in Yast and entered in the uid of 1000 like it instructed in the article.

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