john wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hey gang, > > I finally got all my drives (CD-ROM,floppy and zip) mountable and > umountable, I can even read/write to my floppy now and see what's on a CD if > I click on the icon. The only obstacle left is the zip icon. If I click on > it, konquerer pops up, but it reads that it can't get into the directory (the > CD-ROM was the same)...fine, I go into Linuxconf and try to fix 'em up. Now > the CD-ROM is fine, yet I still can't get into the zip (/mnt/zip) directory. > Is there some kind of permission somewhere I'm missing? I gave my user a > 'lot' of permissions (not enough to give up any security really), I've got > 'user' in fstab and even went to the 'properties of /mnt/zip and tried > that...still it won't let me into the directory. > If I can finally get this last little problem solved, I will be extremely > pleased. This is the one thing that has plagued me since the first time I > installed Linux 3 or 4 months ago. I like to save 'stuff' and I have all > these zip disks, so I might as use half of them for my Winblows junk and the > other half of them for my Linux junk. > Thanks to everyone who helps out on this list...you're a great bunch of > folk! > > John > - -- > > Free from M$'s evil monopoly and gov't. prying...using Linux and GnuPG > Registered Linux user #214117 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE7WePGUCHRgZ5NwkMRAjYUAJ9oi62SOt6VtPnm137+3Oq0zS64SgCdGKp5 > vrebqUOIWPGpuyz+y9wRAT0= > =8jUT > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- John Log in as root and add user as shown below to the file: /etc/fstab /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,user,dev=/dev/zip 0 0 Save your changes. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 "su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey"