Problems mounting windows (vfat) partition

Hi,
Im having this problem, i mount the vfat partition because i have some mp3 overthere and i want to listen with XMMS while in Arch.
Then, when i try to browse through XMMS file browser, i cant browse the vfat partition, the directories and files, all of them, appear at the right panel, like if they were all files, so i cant get "inside" the mp3 folder...
any clues??
mount command:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win

since you are using /mnt as your destination directory, you need to make sure that you have changed permissions for that so that a user can access it if you haven't already. I usually mount mine in my /home/user/ directory to save the hassle and because it is more convenient.
here is some info on how to do it:
/dev/hda1 /home/user/windows vfat user,uid=500,gid=500 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /home/user/winmusic vfat user,uid=500,gid=500 0 0
*this will allow you to write to those directories. All you need to do in either case is save this as your new fstab file.
*to make sure your id's are 500, type "id" in your terminal, if they are something different than 500, substitute that number instead for both uid and gid.
In Arch, the primary user is usually uid=1000 and gid=100

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