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Using Shared Personal Folders Among Vista and Ubuntu – Fixing the Permissions Problem

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 15, 2008

“But ofcourse things can never be as easy as they seem. After
doing this I didn’t have write access to some of my personal
folders in Ubuntu. The folders that were linked to personal folder
in Vista were read only, all the other folders on the FAT32
partition adhered to rules I had set in /etc/fstab… I still don’t
really know what’s causing this problem but I have found a way to
fix it. The answer is really quite simple but it’s not something
you’d expect.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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