[huskerlug] Re: Mount problems

Ah, I see my mistake.  I thought you were trying to mount a samba partition. 
Not sure why, probably because you mentioned windows somewhere.  Anyway, after
looking it up myself, you're right.  umask sets the permissions that are not
present.  In other words, it's an inverse mask.

Glad I could help out...even though I was answering the wrong question :)

--Ben

Quoting "John P. DiMartino" <john_dimartino@xxxxxxx>:

> Actually, I ended up using umask as a mount option... here is a sample
> of my fstab file.
> 
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/WindowsXP ntfs
> iocharset=8859-1,sync,codepage=850,noauto,exec 0 0
> 
> /dev/hdb1 /mnt/FTP vfat auto,user,rw,umask=0000 0 0
> 
> (ignore the wrap around)
> 
> This seems to work fine - all my users have permissions that they need.
> 
> Thanks again for your help - you mentioning dmask made me think of umask
> - but as you said, they are very similar so I could have used either I
> suppose.
> 
> Later,
> John
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 14:32, Ben Chavet wrote:
> > Well, I don't think that umask is a mount option, but if you're talking
> about
> > the umask command, it works a lot like the fmask & dmask options.  It
> forces any
> > files or directories you create to have the permission mask given to the
> umask
> > command.  
> > 
> > From the bash man page:
> > 
> >        umask [-p] [-S] [mode]
> >               The user file-creation mask is set to mode.  If mode begins
> with
> >               a  digit,  it is interpreted as an octal number; otherwise it
> is
> >               interpreted as a symbolic mode mask similar to that accepted 
> by
> >               chmod(1).   If mode is omitted, the current value of the mask
> is
> >               printed.  The -S option causes the mask to be  printed  in 
> sym-
> >               bolic  form;  the  default output is an octal number.  If the
> -p
> >               option is supplied, and mode is omitted, the output is in a
> form
> >               that may be reused as input.  The return status is 0 if the
> mode
> >               was successfully changed or if no mode  argument  was 
> supplied,
> >               and false otherwise.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Quoting "John P. DiMartino" <john_dimartino@xxxxxxx>:
> > 
> > > Thanks for the help.  I used to know that but forgot :).
> > > 
> > > Anyway - is umask the same as dmask and fmask except that umask works
> > > with the subtraction of permissions?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > John
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 11:20, Ben Chavet wrote:
> > > > use dmask and fmask.  set them to 770 or 777 if you want all users to
> have
> > > > read/write access.
> > > > 
> > > > Quoting "John P. DiMartino" <john_dimartino@xxxxxxx>:
> > > > 
> > > > > I have a computer that dual boots Mandrake 9.1 and WinXP. I also run
> FTP
> > > > > servers on both (they have users with passwords, chrooted).  I keep
> > > > > running into a problem though.  I can't seem to give access to my
> > > > > windows mounts to all users.  I know I can add the line uid=500 so
> that
> > > > > one user can use the drive, but what is the fstab line to give
> EVERYBODY
> > > > > access to that drive?  This is what I had - and I thought it worked
> but
> > > > > it doesn't.
> > > > >
> > > > > /dev/hda1 /mnt/FTP vfat auto,user,rw 0 0
> > > > > 
> > > > > I also tried
> > > > > 
> > > > > /dev/hda1 /mnt/FTP vfat defaults 0 0
> > > > > 
> > > > > ... do you guys have any hints as to what I am doing wrong?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > > John
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
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