permission denied when trying to access vfat partition

[db109]

i got 382 installed to hard drive & booting.
when i try & access my vfat partition it sez permission denied yet shows me as the owner with rw privledges!
I put a separate line in fstab for it but no luck. it is:
/dev/hda5 /mnt/d vfat defaults,users,exec 0 0
this is very agravating. i have no sound, no printer & was trying to get at some notes i had on the d drive
is there any way to tell konquerer i'm root. this not being able to log in as root is a pain when half your perifials dont work.

[UnderScore]

kdesu konqueror

[bigkahuna]

or my favorite: right click on desk top, select "Run Command", type in "Konqueror", and select "Options", then select "Run as different user" and enter "root" as username. I must do this a half dozen times a day... someday I'll create a menu option for "Konqueror as root"...

[eco2geek]

There are a couple things you could do in /etc/fstab. You could put in a line similar to the following:

/dev/hda5 /mnt/d vfat auto,user,exec,umask=000 0 0
The "umask=000" setting would essentially give all users who use that computer read/write access to the partition, which is a security risk but may not matter if you're the only one.

Or you could put in a line like this:

/dev/hda5 /mnt/d vfat auto,user,exec,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
(substitute your own user and group ID) to only give access to yourself and root.