[CS-FSLUG] best way to set up network permissions

[Stephen J. McCracken]

On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 15:58, David M. wrote:
> there is a directory in d that I would not like to share that I use for both 
> win and lin, but it is owned by root. I tried to change the owner of the 
> directory that I do not want to share to myself so I could only give myself 
> permission to RWX, but Mandrake keeps saying that root doesn't even have 
> enough permission to change the owner of that directory.

Not sure of everything, but I think you need to specify ownership at
mount time rather than changing it later.  (something like "mount
/dev/sdb1 -o uid=0,gid=10 /mnt/reader" which I use for my usb drive). 
If I'm wrong, somebody, please correct me.

sjm