[NCLUG] RE:trouble writing to DOS/vfat devices

[Sean Roberts]

On Wednesday August 29 2001 12:44pm, you wrote:
> I'm not sure this newbie question made it to the list legibly.  When I
> pulled up yesterday's digest my messages were undecipherable (!*?)
>
> My hard drive is partitioned to dual-boot RH7.1 and Win98.  There is
> another partition formatted FAT32.  I'd like to be able to use the Gnome
> Midnight Commander File Manager to drag/drop files from my Linux
> directories into either the C: or D: Win98 logical drives, which are
> mounted in Linux as /win98 and /fat32 respectively.  I get an error
> *Cannot create target file "blah-blah-blah" Permission denied (13)*
> whenever I try to do this, whether as root or a regular user.
> Same thing happens with the floppy drive if it has an IBM format on the
> diskette.
>
> Is the only way to read/write these devices via the
> DOS-file-system-specific commands such as mmove, mcopy, mmount, etc?

Could you supply us with the output of the mount command.  (from a terminal 
type mount and post the output).

Also your /etc/fstab file might help.

-- 
Sean Roberts