[wplug] Mandrake 9.2 root not able to chmod.

[Burt E Reany]

  Most interesting.  I installed Mandrake 9.2 as a second OS on a box with
an existing Windoz system - when i logged into 9.2 as a user, I didn't have
permission to look at the Windoz file system in /mnt. (it was owned by root
with 740 permissions.).  I did an su - root, and a chmod 777 /mnt/(windoz)
with no errors  - but it maintained the 740 permission. fstab showed
"defaults" as options. Users still couldn't see the FAT32 files.
  This behaviour seems overly potty trained to me, - but it's more likely
that i'm simply too limited to understand why root shouldn't be able to set
the permissions to allow access to a Windoz filesystem.

  (Gadzooks - might Bill Gates have wrested control of chmod.c away from
the FSF? I feel a new family of conspiracy theories congealing out of the
mist).

Any ideas on opening these permissions (or info on where the fstab
"defaults" resides) would be appreciated.

Thanx.



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