Drive permission issues opties

[azenz]

I am suddenly experiencing strange folder permission issues where applications such as showFoto or vmware can't write on my various hard drives (FAT and ext3), giving permission failure error messages. This was not previously the case (I am using a live system). They can still write in e.g. /home/guest. The ownership of the drives is root, but permissions are set that all can write to them. But when I run a root konqueror to change the ownership of a FAT drive, I get the error message "you have insufficient access to the file to perform the change". Any ideas what is going on?

[kris]

Start a _clean_ session in KDE. As user.

For FAT:
Click on the Devices icon. Open the FAT drive.
You don't need root access to write to a FAT drive.

For ext3:

The permission depends on:
- to which directory you want to write
- how the permissions are set for this ext3 partition (permissions are 'internally' stored on an ext3 partitions)

To start a program with root permission, use kdesu, the run command in the panel, for example:
kdesu konqueror

In case you are running another instance of a rooted program which is not cleanly closed, you will get an error becuase you can't run more than one 'rooted' stuff.

PS: you don't tell which kind of drives they are, internal, external, ide, sata ...

[azenz]

Hi Kris,

Thanks, yes I am aware that I should be able to write to FAT as guest, and I can using Konqueror, but when I run showFoto and try to save an image to a FAT drive it gives me an error message, and I can't think of what the issue could be except permissions (especially since I can save anywhere in /home/guest). Puzzling...