FAT32 issue

[John Ughrin]

I've got a FAT32 partition set up to share between
Ubuntu and WinXP. I've tried  changing fstab, which
put it on my desktop. However, I can't seem to get
permission to write or read anything in the drive. As
root, I appear to be able to create directories, but
then I can't change their permissions. When I get
feedback from chmod or chown, I get stuff like this:

root at ubuntu:/home/john # chown john
/datashare/Johnfiles
chown: changing ownership of `/datashare/Johnfiles':
Operation not permitted

Also, when I open the datashare drive on the GNOME
desktop I only see little rectangles with a green
footprint in them.

A little experimenting reveals that I _can_ do all
these things on the linux partition. 

I'm a linux newbie so if you need more info, you might
need to tell me how to get it. Thanks in advance.


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