Share Permission & Auto mount issues

[mpcsm]

Hi I'm new to Ubuntu so please excuse my lack of knowledge.

I have 2 issues and hope you can help me with these.

Issue 1: I have a drive that I'd like to have it mount automatically on startup. How do I do that?

Issue 2: There is a folder in that same drive called "My Document". I set it as a shared folder (right mouse button and select "Sharing Option" I checked the "Share this folder" and "Allow other people to write in this folder").

When I reboot Ubuntu and restart the system, the "Share this folder" option is retained as checked, but the "Allow other people to write in this folder" is not retained.
How do I retain "Allow other people to write in this folder" on restart?

[iaculallad]

Issue 1: I have a drive that I'd like to have it mount automatically on startup. How do I do that?

Try adding the drive/partition in your /etc/fstab file which as previously discussed in this thread.

Issue 2: There is a folder in that same drive called "My Document". I set it as a shared folder (right mouse button and select "Sharing Option" I checked the "Share this folder" and "Allow other people to write in this folder").

When I reboot Ubuntu and restart the system, the "Share this folder" option is retained as checked, but the "Allow other people to write in this folder" is not retained.
How do I retain "Allow other people to write in this folder" on restart?

Set the folder permission:

sudo chmod -R 777 /mount_point/My\ Document

*Above command is just a sample, change it to fit your setting*

[mpcsm]

Now I really stuffed thing up.

I tried to change fstab but couldn't get the parameters to work.
Here is what I put in.

/dev/sda2 /media/data vfat user,auto,exec,rw
That resulted in an error message telling me that /media/data could not be mounted.

I commented the line in fstab and things were back the way they were.

Now I though by right click on the drive that I mounted, I selected the property of the drive, and there I found the "mount options" parameters in one of the tabs.
I entered "user,auto,exec" no quotes and now I can not access the drive no matter what I do.

Sorry I did say I'm a newbie.
Are you able to help me
1. Get the drive to be mounted again.
2. Tell me what I did wrong in my fstab parameters?

Thanks

[taurus]

Instead of using that entry for your /dev/sda2 in /etc/fstab, try this one.

/dev/sda2   /media/data   vfat   iocharset=utf8,umask=000  0  0

Save it and mount your /dev/sda2, assuming you already have that mount point, /dev/data.

sudo mount -a
df -h

Everyone should be able to write to /media/data now.

[mpcsm]

Hi taurus
Because i've changed the "mount options" parameters in one of the drive property tabs and entered "user,auto,exec" no quotes, I can not access the drive no matter what I do.

I can see the drive in "Computer" but I can not see the "mount options" tab any more.
It seams that the bad parameters I put in the "mount options" cannot be changed through the GUI.

When I tried your code
/dev/sda2 /media/data vfat iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 0
I still can not mount the drive.

Code
sudo mount -a

Result:
[mntent]: line 9 in /etc/fstab is bad
mount: mount point /media/data does not exist

Code
df -h result in
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 49G 8.5G 38G 19% /
tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 1.5G 300K 1.5G 1% /var/run
varlock 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /var/lock
udev 1.5G 2.9M 1.5G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.5G 12K 1.5G 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1.5G 2.0M 1.5G 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-11-generic/volatile

[taurus]

Post these.

sudo fdisk -l
sudo blkid
cat /etc/fstab
ls -la /media

[mpcsm]

sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc6e6fa46

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 6632 53271508+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 13541 38913 203808622+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda3 6633 13015 51271447+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 13016 13540 4217062+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdc: 2000 MB, 2000682496 bytes
64 heads, 63 sectors/track, 969 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 = 2064384 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 969 1953439+ 6 FAT16



sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="B2D82AFFD82AC209" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: UUID="48CE-B3AA" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda3: UUID="26593fdd-f70e-4fcb-bbcc-a3e16bf25fe6" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda4: TYPE="swap" UUID="1c89e281-4a9b-4f2d-92f1-25f52a5bdf84"
/dev/sdc1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="1020-FE20" TYPE="vfat"



cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda3
UUID=26593fdd-f70e-4fcb-bbcc-a3e16bf25fe6 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda4
UUID=1c89e281-4a9b-4f2d-92f1-25f52a5bdf84 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0


ls -la /media
total 48
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-03-18 09:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 2009-03-14 00:45 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2009-03-13 23:59 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-03-13 23:59 cdrom0
drwx------ 3 michael root 16384 1970-01-01 10:00 disk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110 2009-03-18 09:39 .hal-mtab
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2009-03-18 09:39 .hal-mtab-lock

[taurus]

Edit /etc/fstab and add this line back to the end of it.

/dev/sda2   /media/data   vfat   iocharset=utf8,umask=000  0  0

Now, you need to create that new mount point before you can mount it.

sudo mkdir /media/data
sudo mount -a
df -h

[mpcsm]

I can now see the drive and it is automatically mounted when I restart the system. Thanks.

However, I'm not able to
1. Unmount the drive
2. Share it or any of the folders within it, as it is controlled by root.

How do I change the permission to be able to unmount and share the drive and its contents.

Thanks again

[taurus]

If you want to unmount it, just run

sudo umount /dev/sda2
-or-
sudo umount /media/data

What do you mean by sharing it? You should be able to write to /media/data anytime you want even if root is the owner.

ls -la /media/data