I have a G4 ( system 10.4.10) set up with two users: one admin "A", one standard non-admin user "B". There are 3 drives (one with 3 partitions) in this machine. Since user B will be the primary operator, I wanted to give her some measure of privacy, and make two of these partitions visible only to her. Somehow I have screwed it up and I have one drive that is visible to no one.
User B can see partitions 1(the system), 2 and 3.
User A (with admin privileges) can see partitions, 1, 2 and 4. But no one can see 5!
I'd like to give partition 5 to user B, but cant seem to figure out how to change them. I can't simply undo what I did, because no one has access to the drive now.
I've been playing with the terminal program but can't seem to get access to the drive. I can mount the drive, and it shows up, but I cant seem to change the owner or the permissions.
When I connect a firewire cable, the drive is not accessible from the other machine (has a - sign on the icon) and it won't let me open it. If I run the terminal program from THAT machine and mount drives, it shows up as:
/dev/disk1s5 on /Volumes/Home (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, noowners)
(Home is the name of the partition - I realized too late, that this might be a problem, but it was kind of a warm fuzzy name and I wanted to instill confidence in the privacy of that area!)
What exactly should I type in the terminal to change the owners of this partition?
Thank you!
User B can see partitions 1(the system), 2 and 3.
User A (with admin privileges) can see partitions, 1, 2 and 4. But no one can see 5!
I'd like to give partition 5 to user B, but cant seem to figure out how to change them. I can't simply undo what I did, because no one has access to the drive now.
I've been playing with the terminal program but can't seem to get access to the drive. I can mount the drive, and it shows up, but I cant seem to change the owner or the permissions.
When I connect a firewire cable, the drive is not accessible from the other machine (has a - sign on the icon) and it won't let me open it. If I run the terminal program from THAT machine and mount drives, it shows up as:
/dev/disk1s5 on /Volumes/Home (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, noowners)
(Home is the name of the partition - I realized too late, that this might be a problem, but it was kind of a warm fuzzy name and I wanted to instill confidence in the privacy of that area!)
What exactly should I type in the terminal to change the owners of this partition?
Thank you!