[PLUG] Cannot change perms on fat32 partition?

["Gregson Helledy" <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

My machine (Libranet 2.0, updated with Debian Woody) has my fat32
partition mounted as /windows
In fstab, it is mounted at boot, and everything works as it should.
However, only root has write access.
Perms are (from memory):
drwxr-xr-x

/windows is owned by user root, and belongs to group root.

I would like users to be able to write to this directory, so as
root, in KDE, I right-clicked, chose properties, and set the appropriate
checkboxes.  No error is returned, but when I do a refresh in the
file manager, perms haven't changed.

So, I tried, from /:

chmod a+w windows

Again, no error was returned, but the perms haven't changed.
Just for kicks, I tried:

chmod a+w /windows
chmod g+w windows

No dice.  Is something broken or am I doing something wrong?

Greg

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