On Friday 30 Aug 2002 10:27 pm, you wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running Mandrake 7.1 (I know I know, long story..) and I'm having what > I think is a permissions problem. > Its the cdrom and floppy drives, specificly unless I'm logged in as root I > can't get to 'em. > This is, a super pain. I want to be a good doobie and not play around with > stuff while logged in as root, but if I want to move stuff between machines > I need the floppy drive....(No network yet, coming soon) > So smarty that I am I pull out the books. Yes books. > Then I edit /etc/group and make my user part of all the groups that look > entertaining, disk,cdrom,floppy,users. > Doesn't help a bit. Finally in a fit of desparation I add myself to root. > Which also doesn't help a bit. > Oh, I do log out between tries, but I presume theres some way around that, > which I'd appreciate knowing.... > So I'm stumped, I can mount and unmount but not use... HELP! > > -Curt
Things are quiet at the moment - I think people are on holiday, so I'll try to help although I'm not an expert. Have you got 'user' in the definition lines in your /etc/fstab? If not, add 'user,' (without quotes of course) after the mount bit dev=/dev/whatever and before the fs=iso9660 bit. Anne
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