[NTLUG:Discuss] bookmarks (and permissions)

[Charles Cashion]

I want to share ONE bookmarks file between Netscape running
on M$ and Firefox running on Linux.

I have a partition (hda5) formated in fat32 that is visible
from M$ and mountable from Linux (/mnt/msdos). Bookmarks.html
is either E:\bookma~1.htm or /mnt/msdos/bookma~1.htm. In the
Netscape M$ profile, I have a user.ps file containing the
location of bookmarks. Netscape under M$ can both read and
write to the bookmarks file.

I have symbolic links where Linux Firefox expects bookmarks.html
to be:

/home/ccashion/.mozilla/firefox/abcdefgh.default/bookmarks.html -> 
mnt/msdos/bookma~1.htm
/home/ccashion/.mozilla/firefox/abcdefgh.default/US/bookmarks.html -> 
mnt/msdos/bookma~1.htm

Firefox can see and accepts the target bookma~1.htm file
but cannot write to it.

In a test to see if it was related to permissions, I tried to
"ls" /mnt/msdos from /home/ccashion confirming that nothing
is visible. I have changed permissions for /mnt from rwxr-xr-x
to rwxrwxrwx

         root]# chmod +777 /mnt

My next step was to change the permissions on /mnt/msdos.

	root]# cd /mnt
          mnt]# chmod +777 msdos

The permissions on /mnt/msdos is rwxr-xr-x, but all efforts to
chmod are ignored.

Other people have suggested other ways to share bookmarks,
but at this point, what I really want to know is: why can I
not change permissions on msdos?
Tnx,
Charles