How do I allow all users to write to a mounted FAT32 filesystem?

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The solution is to mount the FAT32 (vfat) filesystem with the option umask=0. An entry in the /etc/fstab would be similar to following:

/dev/hda4   /mnt/windows    vfat    umask=0         0  0

If this is changed while the filesystem is mounted, the filesystem must be unmounted and remounted for the change to take effect.

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