From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5537 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barutan Seijin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How to make gnus store received mail in the directory /mnt/windows? Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 10:04:03 -0400 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: References: <1124019536.726944.207760@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87wtmo67r8.fsf@Jesper-Harders-Computer.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138671233 27796 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:33:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:33:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:35:26 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.cse.psu.edu!elk.ncren.net!newsflash.concordia.ca!News.Dal.Ca!ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:q0NLunN0McXVquYwJLAEno5tJ8E= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.68.239.192 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1124028243 67.68.239.192 (Sun, 14 Aug 2005 10:04:03 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 10:04:03 EDT Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5679 Original-Lines: 21 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5679 Tue Jan 17 17:35:26 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:5537 Archived-At: On 14 Aug 2005, Jesper Harder wrote: > romeomedina@libero.it writes: > > > Now, the problem is that the desired directory is /mnt/windows, and > > gnus refuses to store mail there, maybe because of a matter of > > permissions. But the command `$ ls -l /mnt' shows that the dir > > /mnt/windows is writable by all users. How can I work the problem > > out? > > You can't write to an NTFS file system from Gnu/Linux (I don't know if > that's your setup, though). No, that's not true. It's been possible for a while, and it's not even listed as "dangerous" anymore. It's possible that the OP merely needs to compile a new kernel with NTFS write support enabled. -- Barutan Seijin -- barutanseijin@gmail.com