you don't have your permisssions for your /dos (if that's how you have it mounted) or whatever your dos directory is set correctly. I can't tell you what to do since I really don't know how you have it set up. But I believe the information is in the documentation. In my case, for instance, my dos partition is mounted in /etc/fstab this way: /dev/hda2 /dos msdos auto,user,umask=000 and when I created /dos (my mount point) I did it like this mkdir -m 777 /dos This means anybody can access it so you may or may want that as your permission. Again, you may be set up differently; in that case, reading the documentation should give you the appropriate instructions. -- Cheryl