Ubuntu & FAT32

[Omnscnt(Sortof)]

I've gone through and Ubuntu won't access my other partitions, I went through a few other tutorials to fix it manually and I wound up altering /etc/fstab. It sort of worked, by adding the line /dev/hada1 /mnt/Winxp vfat rw, user, auto 0 0. It now made the directory for the xp partition, but it won't see thae difference between files and directories, and when I right click or double-click on a directory in the GUI window, it disappears! It also tells me that I don't have permission for.... much anything, this "sudo" garbage is driving me nuts, how do I make the root thing like it is in mandrake?(I'm only asking that here because I'm short on time) Anyway, what can I do to fix the not working well with FAT32 problem? None of this was mentioned in the tutorials.

[je_fro]

Nothing to fix because nothing's broken, your system is working fine with fat32...the problem is, as usual, user error. But I understand your frustration, I beat my box a lot too.
It's a permissions issue.
man mount
man fstab

http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/usersguide/linux_ugaccessfilesys.html


ANd here's a fat32 partition (my camera) being mounted with full permissions:
/dev/camera /home/jeff/camera vfat noauto,users,rw,umask=000 0 0

[Omnscnt(Sortof)]

I'll look into that, but I don't understand the icons dissappearing when I click on them. Aparently I can explore the directories only in command line.

[je_fro]

As root only?

[Sepero]

I admin an Ubuntu on my dads pc and I've never seen or heard of the "disappear folders" thing.

perhaps the www.ubuntuforums.org can help you out