change sharing permission for wd passport mac

Change Sharing Permission For Wd Passport Mod 1775 Exit

Ive been having trouble with an external hard drive Ive been sharing between a PC and Mac.

I bought a 1TB Western Digital external hard drive a while back and I partitioned the drive into 2 portions - one that was formatted NTFS and one that was formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

The problem arose when a few days ago I found I couldnt write to the Mac formatted portion of the hard drive from my Mac Book Pro.

I can still access and write to both portions when I use my PC, so I figure its something that happened or changed on the Mac.

The thing is, when I use Get Info on the Mac formatted portion, I cant change the permissions (theyre all greyed out and unclickable).

Im stumped as Ive exhausted my knowledge of the workings of the Mac machine.

Is there anything I can do to fix this For reference, my Mac Book Pro is running Mac OS X 10.5.8.

When you do a Get Info on that Mac Partition, can you unlock the lock at the bottom Is there an ignore Permission on this Volume check box What are the grayed out permissions staing anyway.

The lock is unclickable, and the grayed out permissions are as below: You can only read.

Me - Read Write staff - Read Write everyone - Read Only The Ignore owenership on this Volume box is checked, but grayed out.

Thats pretty much all the information under the Sharing Permissions section.

See this User Tip by Niel: I accidentally set a disks permissions to No Access.

If the disk in question is your Mac OS X startup disk and your computer stops starting up at the blue screen, restart with the Command and S keys held down, and enter the following commands: mount -uw chown root chmod 1775 exit.

Ive actually named it Mac to distinguish it from the NTFS Partition.

I havent tried the mount command because its not a startup disk and I didnt think it applied to me.

Im not exactly sure of all the inner workings, but Im now able to both readwrite.

I ejected the drive correct way, that is dragging it to trash, then pulled the USB plug out, waited a few seconds, put it back in again and then it was indexed correctly and I have all my correct permissions.

I have an external hard drive thats read-only and when I try to mount it I get this: mount: unknown special file or file system Volumesvolume name.

Is it a lost cause at this point I even tried installing Windows through Parallels just to see if I could more easily change permissions, but no luck.

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Change Sharing Permission For Wd Passport Mod 1775 Exit

Change Sharing Permission For Wd Passport Mac